• Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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    6 hours ago

    Do serious farmers even want inexperienced randos picking their precious harvest though? I guess it might depend on the crop, but a lot of vegetables and fruits need the proper handling, or they’ll be ruined or at least second-rate.

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      3 hours 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.

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      5 hours ago

      There was some politician way back, can’t remember who, was going on about getting convicted felons in prison to pick crops.

      Yeah no.