When I reached out to workampers for the first time, I was met with cheery platitudes. I got warnings, too. One CamperForce RVer agreed to meet me, but added that I’d better not portray him and his comrades as Americans in crisis. “There are plenty of indolent whiners, slackbodies, and layabouts who are happy to complain about nearly anything, and they are easy to find,” he wrote proudly. “I’m not one of those.”