What Was Up With All the Lazy Women?

Once you read us reach a certain level of industrial prosperity, there are certain jobs that people just don't want to do any more. This is why harvesting is generally done by immigrants. And therefore these imigrants are willing to do the work that most americans will not. So in this story from 19 16, when the character says, no one wants to work as hard as they used to, what he really should have said is, no one wanting to work these very difficult jobs because now they do not have to. It is instead a question of better available options. Now let's talk about the other thing in that story. They were complaining that women no longer wanted to churn the butter