> rates of depression are dramatically higher when you introduce these sorts of jobs vs. letting people scrape by working land in a 3rd world setting
First of all, I don't think there's anyway you can assert that. We have no real data about what depression rates were like when these jobs were introduced.
Second of all, the notion that all of these people could be simple, back to the earth farmers is the alternative is all kinds of incorrect.
Third, the notion that even if they were back to the earth farmers they would be happier than factory workers is also one that, from what I've seen, is based entirely on sentiment and not on evidence.
First of all, I don't think there's anyway you can assert that. We have no real data about what depression rates were like when these jobs were introduced.
Second of all, the notion that all of these people could be simple, back to the earth farmers is the alternative is all kinds of incorrect.
Third, the notion that even if they were back to the earth farmers they would be happier than factory workers is also one that, from what I've seen, is based entirely on sentiment and not on evidence.