I'm not entirely sure what your point is, but many small towns died out with the death of the 160 acre farms and high on-farm employment. The small 160 acre farms will not return. Unless small towns can bring in some other industries with high numbers of good paying jobs, there isn't much to keep young people in a small rural town except maybe family ties and a willingness to accept a much lower standard of living.
We can complain about WalMart and Amazon pushing out their smaller competitors, but their purchasing and distribution systems are so much more efficient than the mom and pop stores they replaced. A few days ago you posted a video of a large ensilage operation. We marveled that it is head and shoulders above most other operations in size and efficiency. Those large farming operations are also pushing out their smaller competitors. Is that good or bad, or is it just the future?
In cities you can order groceries online and have them delivered to your door. In ten years that service will be probably be available in most rural areas too.
Just a comment on minors working long hours on school days. I do have to ask how much homework you were able to get done on a school night after working in the feed mill? Many of my high school class mates that rarely did any homework are still living in that same town or the same county, working nearly the same job that they got straight out of high school and for not much more than starting pay. The ones that are successful either inherited a large farm or went back and learn a skill that paid a living wage. Today the opportunities for young people in small towns are even more limited than back when we were starting out. I'd rather see today's young people work at learning a skill while they are still in school than to have them wake up at 30 in a dead end job and too many responsibilities to be able to start over or go to back to school.
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