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When I was 8 thru 16 years old we lived on a small farm of 105 acres over in Highland County. I can remember having to hoe tobacco, corn and beans along with all the other vegetables of which we grew a lot of and ate it all. I thought at the time man this is hard work, but I didn't realize what was really hard work, was when Adam got kicked out of the Garden of Eden and had to till the ground to stay alive, he had no big Kubota or Ford tractor as a matter of fact I don't think he even had a metal hoe. Think about it he had nothing, he truly started from scratching the dirt with bones probably.
Our next generation has had it so good, because us baby boomers were taught so hard because of the depression ere hammered into us from our parents who had it tough but, it made us do well and we wanted to give our kids and especially our grand kids everything, without having to work hard or sacrifice anything at all.
As I have said before I remember working for a very large farmer over in Clarksville, "he had over 1000 acres", I worked for him one entire summer for $1.00 per hour and worked every day from 7am in the morning to 11pm at night riding tractors, mowing , rolling, raking, and bailing hay along with all the other chores and only had one day off all summer, not every Sunday just one day. I dare say you wouldn't find many today that would even attempt to do this, but things change as we go along. Now they want even work if you give them $3.00 and hour over minimum wage lol
Now everyone knows every thing, just ask them, if they don't know it, there phone does. If you want to know who was the highest paid entertainer last year all you got to do is ask your phone. Information is spreading so rapidly now we can't begin to keep up with it, but artificial Intelligence is about to enter the picture in life and it's going to change every thing, from driving your car for you to turning on your heat and air before you get home. The next generation is no doubt going to be smarter and have to do less physical work but, just remember hoeing corn and beans it doesn't matter if it's Adam or whoever it's got to be done even if the robot's do it.