I read a book about debunking common solutions, using "fallacies". One such fallacy was "nostalgia" or longing for a past that really wasn't there.

As the oldest child of four, I am quite aware of the economic transition my family experience in the 1960s. My father was a poor farmer. Then the "green revolution" came to agriculture; i.e. chemical fertilizers and herbicides. My father embraced this new technology. He doubled his harvests in a short time, and the profits allowed him to build the farm up how he thought it should be built. The other farmers were a little slow, so he had three years before they caught up--and prices dropped. But he was well set up to handle the price drop.

Today's farmers are nostalgic for those pre-green-revolution days. Because the nostalgic myth hides the fact that most of the them are relatively rich today.