Solarpunk Farming

This search for new industries is a strategic one that plays on their unique characteristics. Their large families provide abundant labor that can be channeled towards certain enterprises. This allows the Amish to be particularly competitive in growing produce, a sector where much labor is still done by human hands.

Well, that's a nice polite way to say "Amish farms rely on child labor".

And as much as conservatives would love to see America's kids working in the fields instead of woke liberal crap like (checks notes) graduating high school, I have to decline.

As much as I dislike modern industrial agriculture, pre-industrial agriculture was literally backbreaking work, brutal on both humans and their animal tools. I want to see solar powered farms, not muscle powered farms.

And while Amish communities have strong community bonds and support networks, which I wish more American communities had, those networks are facilitated by ~~being a fucking cult~~ a commitment to enforced ideological conformity that a functional multicultural society cannot and should not replicate.