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Offline SirJohn

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Re: What public service job
« Reply #15 on: November 22, 2017, 12:23:20 pm »
Why are farm workers the exception? It’s funny how the one job we truly rely on to survive (food production) is treated the worst.

Because I accept that given the seasonal nature of the job we aren't going to be able to recruit vast numbers of unworking city people to ship out to the farms to pick apples or whatever - work which is, as I understand it, extremely physically demanding, and which poor city people are both uninterested in and incapable of doing without a lot of exercise. If it was a steady, year round job I would think differently. I remember seeing a documentary on Mexican farm workers once, and the farmer paid pretty good wages, and sometimes got Americans interested to come out and work, but most of them quit after the first day or two. The guy who was doing the documentary tried to pick oranges with the farm workers and picked half as many and was barely able to move the next day.
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