We kids picked them for school money.Not all that long ago.We had fun working with our friends +made decent money for kids.Wasn’t that bad.
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Now imagine being 35-years old and picking crops so you can afford groceries. This kind of labor should be mechanized, just like we no longer hand out bags to a slave family and point them to the cotton fields. Roofing is another job that should be a great deal more mechanized.
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I don’t have to imagine it. My family did it seasonally as a break from coal-mining.
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Everybody trashes open-pit mining, but mine collapses and black lung were awful tragedies in their time. We should be working to eliminate dirty, dangerous jobs, not importing more socio-economically vulnerable people to fill them.
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I see both sides on the open pit. The people from those areas would certainly support keeping the outlanders out.
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An overlooked point is that human bodies break down a good deal around age 40. We're still early in this game, and nobody's thought about what to do with all the 45-year old retired manual laborers we're importing from Central America.
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I know a bunch of men who began lifting at 38 and at 45 better than 30 but they are office workers?
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Repetitive stress on joints plus poor personal habits, socio-economic stressors.
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This looks like a perfect candidate for automation. My theory is that the shorter heights/leaner frames of Central Americans make their biomechanics more fitted for this kind of task.
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Unfortunately, it looks like California is becoming a state with a small cognitive elite and a massive underclass. How long will this balancing act last? Who knows!
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