I'll tell more about that in the next message. That's the question the farmer asked. The farmer believed that only people who worked on the land did 'real' work. Today, only a small percentage of people work on the land, yet there is food in abundance. In some respects, that's a strange hypothesis.
Many people do voluntary work.
Few people stay in bed all day, we all like to do things. We now know, of course, that the son went to the city to earn vastly more money than his father did. But one century back, this still was a big argument. Forget about finding work in services, they do not produce anything you can put on the table. The keyword is appreciation.