but there's an argument to be made that seasonal out in the blistering heat manual labor is going to be a tough sell with Americans no matter what it pays.
You're telling me that you wouldn't do that job for a single summer if it paid you seven figures? There's always a price point at which it become financially irresponsible to turn down the job. People just don't want to face how fake and propped up the economy has become over the last several generations.
If we didn’t have 20+ million fake jobs created for women with bachelors psych degrees whose entire existence is based on a government mandate… then maybe just maybe women would pick fruit for 20 bucks an hour.
I make way the hell more than that at a desk job and would be willing to pick fruit for 20 bucks an hour on weekends if it were anywhere near me. That is relatively stress free.
Back as a kid, there was a farm where you could pay to pick a bushel of fruit (though obviously you got to keep it, but it wasn't much, if any, cheaper than a grocery store). Place still always had people out there paying to pick their own fruit, because people enjoyed it.
It should be plausible for a 16 year old to spend part of the summer/fall picking apples on a farm and make more money than a laptop job worker would make. The same goes for guys running machines in factories.
You're telling me that you wouldn't do that job for a single summer if it paid you seven figures? There's always a price point at which it become financially irresponsible to turn down the job. People just don't want to face how fake and propped up the economy has become over the last several generations.
If we didn’t have 20+ million fake jobs created for women with bachelors psych degrees whose entire existence is based on a government mandate… then maybe just maybe women would pick fruit for 20 bucks an hour.
I make way the hell more than that at a desk job and would be willing to pick fruit for 20 bucks an hour on weekends if it were anywhere near me. That is relatively stress free.
Back as a kid, there was a farm where you could pay to pick a bushel of fruit (though obviously you got to keep it, but it wasn't much, if any, cheaper than a grocery store). Place still always had people out there paying to pick their own fruit, because people enjoyed it.
It should be plausible for a 16 year old to spend part of the summer/fall picking apples on a farm and make more money than a laptop job worker would make. The same goes for guys running machines in factories.
or they could just automate more of the job as should have been done 40 years ago, instead of relying on near-slave labour.
Uh, not sure any farm owners would be willing or able to pay $1,000,000... but I'd do it for about three fiddy.