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Comment by spwa4

3 hours ago

No they aren't. There very much was a reason during the industrial revolution why people were driven to the cities and into the factories.

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charlie90  39 minutes ago

The reason was agricultural labor was automated, it had nothing to do with the preferences of the people at the time. If people preferred farming to factory work, tough luck.

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