> They don't have high status even today
Try putting on a dating website that you work at Google vs you work in agriculture and tell us which yielded more dates.
Does it matter? I imagine the tanned shirtless farmer would get more hits than the pasty million dollar salary Googler anyway. (no offense to Googleers).
With so many hits, it's about hitting all the checkmarks instead of minmaxing on one check.
You can't just arbitrarily change (confounding) variables like that for a proper experiment. All other factors (including physique) must remain the same while you change one thing only: occupation.
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