who will work? also, how will the kids get properly socialized and participate in other school functions like sports and clubs an such?

The only real cat in town

If onlyrealcat did some research, (like home schoolers learn to do) he would learn that home schoolers are VERY well socialized and participate in plenty of clubs and activities. There are even several well known and highly successful sports teams that cater to the homeschooled child. Besides, how is placing 22 kids of the same age in a classroom anything like the real world that they will be asked to interact in later? The majority of home schooled children are not only better educated, but have MUCH better manners and can actually carry on a conversation with adults.

I meant paying jobs!
As to the oldest profession, I think that would be "killer," or "snaking." But if you mean the second oldest, it would go back to $2, or a chicken.

WWII. Is that better? Do you know now what it was?
By the way we have had about eleven, we just don't call them that any more since we commit ourselves differently.
Without war and killing and maiming, I don't know what we would do for fun.

name them.

I yam what I yam...Popeye

No "E" in Tony, Mr. Einstein.

"The memories of a man in his old age, are the deeds of a man in his prime.You shuffle in the gloom of the sick room,and talk to yourself as you die."
(R. Waters)

Answers: You do; you do; you do, or do without.
Four room houses, self built out of green sawmill lumber ok to rent.
Yes my job was necessary. I farmed 17 years; in the military four years; worked in factories making necessary products, no longer made here, for 30 years.
All I'm saying is IF we have a catastrophe, we are sunk for a very long time. Our base is currently terrible. I don't fault those now making a living "serving," just some of their attitudes.

As someone who provides services, [note $, I don't serve people, I provide a service] I give fair value for my work. I guess you kill your own meat, butcher it and grow your own veggies? What attitudes do you fault, are the "servers" supposed to kowtow to you? We don't live in the 19th century why should we act like it.what products did you make? Do we get the chance to decide if they were necessary?

I yam what I yam...Popeye

Americans are terribly wasteful, and we really should be more self-sufficient.

A good read: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver. It's a story about a family who moved to Appalachia to live off the land.

"I don't serve people, I provide a service."
Well then, I didn't make products, I provided a product.
I didn't figure you were a waitress!
Actually, I like waitresses. I don't have to sort through a table to get fed.
The attitude is this: Lets make more service jobs we don't have to have instead of keeping our natural resources and doing it ourselves.
Like the governments are always wanting to increase head counts everywhere.
I hope you aren't a motivational speaker or a software salesman.

I guess when you're retired it's easy to say let's do away with your job, and your job, and your job. You didn't say what it was you made, maybe it wasn't that necessary after all. If I was a waiter I'd be the best freaking one you ever saw, you can bet on that. Who sold your product, maybe a [gasp] salesman?

I yam what I yam...Popeye

You don't understand; hoarders would immediately rob all clothing and food. Those people who store one years food would be the first robbed. Can't happen can it?