What other stuff would they be doing... With unemployment almost over 8% about the only work left is turning tricks on the local corners...
That is called a recession temporary recession.
still more people doing non-food related stuff than before industrialization.
surplus population isn't new either.
20000 years ago everyone's job was to get food
5000 years ago it was more like 90% of the population, the remaining 10% became the early cities.
In Rome only about 21% of the population was urban
In modern industrialized countries, 95%+ are urbanized
This engineered food nonsense is for nothing more than to increase the bottom line.
well, yes! that is the whole point of technology, we can do stuff that we could not do before at all, and we can make more stuff with less resources.