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Re:Most Technical Problems Are People Problems by danans on Friday December 05, 2025 @12:12PM (#46164159)
> Farmers got rich because all of sudden their manual labour capacity was multiplied by machines.

I think you are using the word "farmer" to mean "large agricultural landlord". Today, those terms may have a lot of overlap, but in the past, it wasn't so much the case.

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Re:Most Technical Problems Are People Problems by 9rx on Friday December 05, 2025 @02:31PM (#46166148)
> Back then, the landlord who had the "big house" wasn't called a farmer, but often a "Lord" or "Master".

Feudalism in North America, in the 1900s? Your geography and timelines are way off.

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Re:Most Technical Problems Are People Problems by SoftTalker on Friday December 05, 2025 @10:25PM (#46170356)
Sharecropping was very common. And a hard way to earn a subsistence living.
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Re:Most Technical Problems Are People Problems by danans on Saturday December 06, 2025 @12:45AM (#46171045)
In the 18th and 19th centuries, slavery and sharecropping were primary forms of agricultural labor.

Those are far closer to medieval feudal peasantry than 20th century industrial labor, regardless of the lack of an official hereditary aristocracy in the US.

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