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> complain that young adults are refusing to relocate for $5 an hour hard labour jobs. USD $5/hour is what I earned as a teenager working the fields by hand (p
by scruple 6y ago
> complain that young adults are refusing to relocate for $5 an hour hard labour jobs.
USD $5/hour is what I earned as a teenager working the fields by hand (picking corn, beans, and fruit for sale same-day at the farmers small stands throughout the area) in the early 1990s... That's insane. Is that USD $5 or AD?
- ballenf 6y agoI think people will one day demand higher pay for desk jobs over outdoor work. Looking back on my early life, the hard outdoor work was incredibly valuable to me. Desk jobs sometimes were soul-sucking, depression inducing. Not always and my dev work now is desk work that doesn't suck. Now, outdoor work with a high injury rate is a different story.
- shakna 6y agoThat's in AUD. What I've seen first-hand in some farming communities was closer to $10AUD/hr, but that is still far below our actual minimum wage of $19.84AUD/hr.