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>> The farmers displaced by mechanization of the farms in the 20's could go to the cities and man the assembly lines.

Things like this are not necessarily true; some displaced farmers moved into cities, but many did not and have been toiling away since then.

We really whitewash history

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If they were still making a living farming, they were not 'displaced by mechanization', of course. But there's obviously been a huge urbanization wave in many/most parts of the world over the past 100 years.

They said that farmers "could go" not that all did.

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