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.
I am not sure what your point is. Society will collapse if all the farmers stop doing their work. Seems pretty important to me.
I read it that way first as well but I think it’s intended the other way: “for everyone except farmers” …
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.