i did about 4-5 years full time as a young idealist. i was underpaid, ripped off, exploited, and did lots of dangerous shit. got real lucky to not be injured. it still head and shoulders above what happens to the trafficked and adjacent migrant workers brought in by brokers and contract housed. nobody assaulted me, nobody could take away my documents or steal personal belongings from me with impunity with a phone call to La Migra. labor aristocracy compared to the prison work gangs and furlough programs of angola.
but just from the long hours in the heat for absolutely dogshit pay, all that liberal indoctrination against political, mob violence i grew up immersed in, oozed from my pores and evaporated away in the oppressive south georgia sunshine.
i realized in my bones the people running this system deserve everything waiting for them.
We should make it so you gotta have a 4 years work experience before going to college or getting any “grown-up” job, with at least one year in retail, one in food service, one in labor, and one in hospitality.
think 3 months in each leaves enough of impression tbh
(with harvesting even 1 week is enough, if the weather is against you and you do some of the back breaking stuff tbh)
Betcha working conditions on farms would be a lot better if everyone was required to do a rotation once every couple of years.
i did about 4-5 years full time as a young idealist. i was underpaid, ripped off, exploited, and did lots of dangerous shit. got real lucky to not be injured. it still head and shoulders above what happens to the trafficked and adjacent migrant workers brought in by brokers and contract housed. nobody assaulted me, nobody could take away my documents or steal personal belongings from me with impunity with a phone call to La Migra. labor aristocracy compared to the prison work gangs and furlough programs of angola.
but just from the long hours in the heat for absolutely dogshit pay, all that liberal indoctrination against political, mob violence i grew up immersed in, oozed from my pores and evaporated away in the oppressive south georgia sunshine.
i realized in my bones the people running this system deserve everything waiting for them.
GOOD post
We should make it so you gotta have a 4 years work experience before going to college or getting any “grown-up” job, with at least one year in retail, one in food service, one in labor, and one in hospitality.
Mandatory Proletarian Service
this was already a thing. they called it the up to the mountain, down to the countryside movement
think 3 months in each leaves enough of impression tbh (with harvesting even 1 week is enough, if the weather is against you and you do some of the back breaking stuff tbh)