Kub's Den

Those Who Sweat for Their Daily Bread

Elaine Kub
By  Elaine Kub , Contributing Analyst
Working the farm has seen a lot of changes over the millennia, and especially in the past 400 years, but farming is not yet to the point where humans are not needed. (Illustration courtesy Library of Congress)
In a 1930 essay, John Maynard Keynes wrote "To those who sweat for their daily bread leisure is a longed-for sweet -- until they get it." Technological innovation in agriculture could one day remove the need for human labor, but probably not as quickly as...

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