and I still would, if I ever got any of them. Oddly, everyone who used to send them has long since ghosted me. Strange. :-D

with them. Imagine if we actually had to compete with their manual labor?

We lost that ability. It would take us about a generation to get back to that type of work. How hard they work is developed over a lifetime.

If you are watching television and drinking beer, you are not in their class, and I say class, not to mean low class, but to say that their level of hard work is beyond anything any of us probably experienced.

It's incredibly hard. Almost none of us could work even two hours doing this, let alone eight or more hours day after day.

Just a kid, earning some pin money for school. The real work out in the fields was being done by migrant workers. My picking friends and I were the welfare ward.

Outside of the small farming town I grew up in. They hired middle-school and high-school kids to pick the berries - one shift in the early morning for four hours, which is about as long as they could do it.

My brother said it was incredibly hard work, and he quit... not because of the work, but I remember going with mom to pick him up one late morning, and he was trudging up the country road covered in mud. Apparently, they had a mud fight, and he didn't do very good.

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I think about the strawberry crop every time somebody yowls about how “they’re taking OUR jobs!!!”

Well, those jobs are there - go grab a few, ‘eh?

Go wash dishes in the back of restaurants. Or cook other people’s food back in those hot steamy kitchens.

For shitty pay...

The jobs are there...

Oh, those jobs are beneath you? The low “pay” isn’t worth it?

Okay. You’ve made your “point,” milord.