Detail from the cover of Daniel Vickers’s Farmers & Fishermen
“No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.” -- Thomas Jefferson
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via Seeking Alpha
Above is a superb interactive graph depicting the percentages of reported occupations in America from 1850 to 2000. Click on a descriptive ribbon for greater detail. Here are two telling ones:
Percentage of Farmers 1850-2000
Percentage of Salesmen/Saleswomen 1850-2000
Something tells me this is about to change...
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“Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.” -- Henry David Thoreau
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