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[–] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I am not sure what your point is. Society will collapse if all the farmers stop doing their work. Seems pretty important to me.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I read it that way first as well but I think it's intended the other way: "for everyone except farmers" ...

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I believe the intended reading should have a comma after farmers, which would clarify that "them" at the end of the sentence is only referring to engineers, police/fire/ambulance, teachers, etc...

EDIT: actually now that I think about it I don't know that a comma alone would fix it, but I still support the comma there.

[–] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah, I am not a native speaker but I think it could been a comma and clarify who "them" would be as in this sentence "them" would be farmers, not others.