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The teenage babysitters I know demand a higher hourly rate than Target workers in my locale (at about $18/hr). I don't think the farmers are ready to pay that for young people who are not work hardened and can't keep their phones out of their hands for longer than 5 minutes. It is not like they will starve if they don't pick enough. After all, their parents will be there, helicoptering, handing them bottles of lifewater and snacks and uploading pics and vids on their phones on their social media accounts.
Congratulations. This is the most Boomer-ass comment I have ever read on Lemmy.
Signed,
A 40-Year Old Millenial.
Why don't you go work in the field? We need all the top shots out there, get on it buddy.
Children should grow up and use their energy for learning, so that they aren't doomed to become slaves for the prison industry in a future where people without solid education are not able to do more than work in the fields or clean offices.
But i know, y'all don't need that, because all the stuff that made america great in the 50's and 60's was invented by farm workers and office cleaners... or might it be that all that made america great came from the minds of the top educated of their fields, you know, scientists - you will need new ones in the future, since the ones living right now are fleeing the US as fast as possible to escape the braindead fascism that has taken hold of the country.
You should start begging your children to stay in school, your future depends on it.