Picking strawberries is a bit boring and uncomfortable. Apparently that's too much for kids these days. And apparently it's now illegal for kids to pick-up strawberries in most states. WTF.
The heat can be mitigated by getting up extremely early to start as soon as there is enough light, before Sunrise, and you call it a day at 11AM if it's too hot.
Grocery stores wanted the straberries from the farm I worked at because we could deliver them freshly picked before noon. Costumers do like the big ''freshly picked this morning'' banner.
You can get a good 6 hours done in the morning before the sun cooks you the rest of the day.
A big farm can have mechanical equipment to provide shade where workers are. This extra comfort makes a huge difference in how many people will tolerate the outdoor work, but it has a big upfront cost.
I wonder if slave ancestors look upon their current spawns and are ashamed? Picking cotton in a Georgia summer fucking sucks, but now Marqueece down the block is pissed because he got fired for not showing up not work for the 7th time this month to flip burgers and has to eat free government cheese and cut back on weed.
To some peasant from 1850, a wellfare leech who took a shower and put on second-hand clean clothes would seem like a lazy rich with their silly fashion high quality fabric, living-off some nobility pension. They even get carted-around the city by weather-proof big charriots! Wow!
Running hot water? Your living quarters are heated?! Magic lights? A matress and high quality sheets? The circus / theater, music / in a box with dozens of choices to watch free? You're living like a lazy king!
I can hardly imagine how some 60 IQ slave would percieve this beyond "fat = well fed, dosen't have to work, gets stuff for free".
Picking strawberries is a bit boring and uncomfortable. Apparently that's too much for kids these days. And apparently it's now illegal for kids to pick-up strawberries in most states. WTF.
The heat can be mitigated by getting up extremely early to start as soon as there is enough light, before Sunrise, and you call it a day at 11AM if it's too hot.
Grocery stores wanted the straberries from the farm I worked at because we could deliver them freshly picked before noon. Costumers do like the big ''freshly picked this morning'' banner.
You can get a good 6 hours done in the morning before the sun cooks you the rest of the day.
A big farm can have mechanical equipment to provide shade where workers are. This extra comfort makes a huge difference in how many people will tolerate the outdoor work, but it has a big upfront cost.
I wonder if slave ancestors look upon their current spawns and are ashamed? Picking cotton in a Georgia summer fucking sucks, but now Marqueece down the block is pissed because he got fired for not showing up not work for the 7th time this month to flip burgers and has to eat free government cheese and cut back on weed.
To some peasant from 1850, a wellfare leech who took a shower and put on second-hand clean clothes would seem like a lazy rich with their silly fashion high quality fabric, living-off some nobility pension. They even get carted-around the city by weather-proof big charriots! Wow!
Running hot water? Your living quarters are heated?! Magic lights? A matress and high quality sheets? The circus / theater, music / in a box with dozens of choices to watch free? You're living like a lazy king!
I can hardly imagine how some 60 IQ slave would percieve this beyond "fat = well fed, dosen't have to work, gets stuff for free".
We should agree and amplify, call it slavery and argue for the repeal of the 13th Amendment.