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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
(this is just a joke - of course farmwork still has physically demanding parts)
Your fake farmer toughness wouldn't last a day working in an artificially-lit, soul sucking office cubicle for someone else's profit!
Ha! Gotcha farmers!
Now if you'll excuse me I need to cry.
I worked in an office environment that regularly interacted with field workers. They would often give us grief about how easy our jobs are (being in an air conditioned office, on chairs, etc). Two of them got injured and in order to keep them earning a paycheck, and keep their sick hours, they came to help us in the office. They were supposed to be on restrictive duty for months I believe. Within two weeks they begged to go back into the field doing anything except helping us. Haven't heard any grief from them since. Haha.
The difference between physical damage and psychic damage.
When the boss uses vicious mockery.
The modern farmer is now mostly a land manager. Most of the farms have been bought up by big companies, or have the land leased out to companies that primarily use migrant labour to do all the actual work.
My dad's side of the family has a couple thousand acres in North West Ohio that I used to go up in the summer to work on in the 90s. It was hard work, I mostly moved bales of hay to feed livestock. However, once my great uncle got too old to actually run the operation he just started leasing out the land and that side of the family basically became landlords.
Now all my cousins have menial jobs in town and are just waiting around to inherit plots of land they can sell as soon as humanly possible.
Day on a farm:
I was told there be goths in IT. Just fat nerds, mostly me.
She looks very happy!
Have you ever driven a tractor? It's pretty damn awesome.
only semi related but ive been gifted with soft skin, the kind that old men would handshake and say "you never worked a real day in your life!" i work a blue collar job. some people are just gifted.
I have baby soft skin, as noted by male and female friends alike, despite working tons of physical jobs including driving fence posts for a summer. I'm pretty sure it's a condition called Ehlers-Danlos, in my case, but I'm not officially diagnosed, just have every symptom. Learned about it through my DNA testing, there was a gene there that was connected to it.
Lol or you know how to use lotion?
Older gen hated sunscreen and lotion.
I don't use lotion and still have very soft skin. I also work in a print shop with plenty of heavy lifting and manual labour.
lol
Ha ha ha, farming was hard work, like we have no idea, back in the pioneer days. Now? You can't compete without the industrial operations, unless you have a niche.
These pioneers, they were harder than any of these gym freaks, they weren't swollen, they were scrawny, wiry, and stronger. Muscle mass doesn't mean strength necessarily.
Wouldn't the pioneers drive boulders?
industrial operations
True for the corn and soybeans that cover vast swaths of this country, but a lot of fruits and vegetables are still very labor intensive. That labor is usually done by underpaid immigrants, who are definitely not swole, but are definitely in better shape then any of us.
Is it true that farming isn't physically demanding anymore? I figured it's easier now physically, but you'll still develop strength from the things that can't be done with machinery.
Depends on the farm. In NA, if you're running a farm > 5000ac, you're probably making enough money and are busy enough managing the finances and schedules to get new equipment often enough that you don't have to fix much, or you can afford a mechanic. Things still need to be greased, and I'd challenge most of the desk jockeys here to slide under a seeder and grease and inspect 80-100 shanks every morning for 3 weeks and not complain about it. That's the job of the guy behind the wheel, usually, because they're the one to fix it in the field if it wasn't installed right. And while you're out there, shit breaks. You can shut everything down and wait for a mechanic, or you can get your ass under there and unplug the opener or replace the boots/hose.
Small farms, which today is a farm under 5k and is by far the larger amount of farms, you get to do all that yourself, and your equipment might be 30 or 40 years old, so you're fixing it a lot. You still have to be able to lift a 100lb part into your machine or implement rather than fuck around going to get another tractor to lift it in, or it just isn't going to fit where you need to lift. So you better have some upper body strength or some young prick to do it for you.
Yah, when everything is working and the GPS is engaged, all you have to do is watch for things wrong and eat the lunch you packed yourself to last all day in the first hour.
Nobody here has a clue how farming actually works.
My impression is that it is definitely not as demanding as when you were plowing feilds with a team of oxen... but it is still physicall demanding. Sure, machinaty automates a lot, but that just means you are more productive and end up doing more of the labor the machine doesn't automate. Also from what I've heard, a lot of the work of modern farming is fixing and maintaining the machines that do the heavy lifting - which is also fairly taxing physical labor.
Depending on the type of farming, the thing that can't be done by machinery can get ridiculously small. To my knowledge, to grow cereal for example, intensive and repetitive efforts are not needed if you have access to machines. You still have to be physically capable but i wouldnt say it's physically demanding.
He’s not wrong. Those muscles will atrophy in no time.
Two words: Jeremy Clarkson
Your fake "work from dawn till dusk" work ethic wouldn't last you 5 minutes in an office.
5 minutes at the office:
(this is just a joke too)
Is this some kind of joke? My aunt Lisa has worked on a farm for 40 years doing back breaking work and has multiple ruptured disks and numbness in her feet. Carrying firewood and bags of chicken seed all day would send you home to your Gameboy and warm blanket. I bet you wouldn't even last a day. I bet you wouldn't even try because you're probably on the Atkins diet and afraid to eat real food. My aunt Lisa has broken her body farming. She is tough and strong and you will never be like her. I bet you would be too scared to show this meme to her.
"Is this some kind of joke?"
Yes, that's exactly what this is.
I would counter to say that your aunt is in the minority. If you are talking about hauling individual bags of chicken feed, you are already talking about a much smaller scale than what the meme is poking at. This is more about the industrial scale farms, typically growing corn or soy beans, using combines, harvesters, and other specialized equipment worth millions. This high end equipment has removed all the backbreaking labor you are referencing because that would be time inefficient and cut into profits. When you are plowing, seeding, or harvesting 1000 acres a day there isn't time to haul anything by hand. If you take time to baby a single plant or animal then you are taking time away from caring for the larger field or heard.
Small family farms, like the one you are implying, have old equipment (due to high costs) that embody the hard farmer life, like the open seat tractor. Big farms who spent 400k on their tractor have enclosed cabs with air conditioning and computer controlled auto steering, like the one pictured in the meme.