The fruit I and friends picked and packed during a gap year in New Zealand for minimum wage (at that time around 6€) are sold here in Europe for 2€/kg. (And the

The fruit I and friends picked and packed during a gap year in New Zealand for minimum wage (at that time around 6€) are sold here in Europe for 2€/kg. (And the place basically gave us a free place to live and free access to the fields for food.) It might not have been the most amazing job ever, but it was ok enough. For a small and non-poor economy like New Zealand and Australia I find it a good compromise to take the adventure-minded youths of rich countries and have them work a few months of their lives, since there is no shortage of those and less people do the job all their lives or try to raise a family on it. It's also interesting to see there was labour travel of poorer countries such as Chile and China. A few people came over, basically to have an opportunity to see the world (most surplus of earning was eaten by higher costs and travel), and they didn't even know English. I still admire them. TL;DR: If you buy New Zealand fruit - most has been picked by some priviledged kid from a rich country (for fun and acceptable pay).