'The whole thing is screwed up': Farmers in deep-red Pennsylvania struggle to find workers

[haele]

24. He means "Teenagers and Simple Folk" are too spoiled to do.

He's talking about the itinerant workers and sharecroppers of his grandparent's day who would agree to work the farm for room and board until they moved on or couldn't work any longer.

Those excess and uneducated adults with no future or skills past a strong back.
The orphan train kids or "distant cousins" (abandoned or sold children from families too poor to raise them, or from single parents whose partner died or left them), sent off from the ages of five or six to small farms to "be raised" until they were old enough to start asking for wages or respect for the work they did.

The working men and women who struggled to form unions so they could have enough wages and a pension to keep them from dying in the charity houses or a random field or ditch when they no longer could work for room and board - you know...your grandparents who dropped everything to fight or worked in WWII - and got GI benefits to kickstart a thriving US economy, a technology trend, and the Middle Class.

Yeah, I'll agree many US citizens have been spoiled by 70 years of technological advances.
But not too spoiled to work. Just too spoiled to work like slaves or prison labor for a pittance with room and board until they could work no more like their great-grandparents did.