• squaresinger@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Tbh, I think especially the work-intensive low-qualification jobs like picking berries and stuff are easy enough to teach. I’d be more afraid of people who really don’t want to be there doing the job.

    The people doing the job right now really need the money, so even if they most likely don’t enjoy doing the job either, they have a lot of incentive to perform well.

    If you put some rich kid there who is just biding their time, that can’t be fired and that doesn’t need the money either, they will likely be nothing more but a waste of space at best and actively harmful at worst.

    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      Sadly it’s probably too much to wish for that they’d develop empathy for the real workers and use the cushion of their wealth to help support a strike for a fairer share of profits/subsidies. Iirc, there’s already a farm workers union since Cesar Chavez but it’s weak because members are poor and transient.

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      7 months ago

      LOL yes if you enslaved me to enrich some POS by working his land I would absolutely be at best useless on purpose and if I could “accidentally” make it worse eg dropping stuff or messing it up in transit I absolutely would.