I think the problem has many different facets. Money is only one of them. Back when I was a kid, my brother worked in the hay fields despite his allergies; these days, people will call you an idiot if you do something for a buck that tends to make you sick.
Second, all these farm people have complained for so long that they're doing work that no one in their right mind would do for the money it pays, that kids are taking them at their word, and deciding that if it's crazy to do farm work for what it pays, they're not gonna be crazy.
Kids who grew up in the city have no idea how to do farm work because they've never been exposed. So they're not gonna go to work for someone who's gonna b!tch at them because they don't know how to do the work, and yet expect them to know everything there is to know about it. I know that during harvest time there's not a lot of time to be a teacher...but if you can't be a teacher, then don't b!tch because these kids don't know how to do the work without asking every step of the way.
And I agree that we've told kids that if they want to make any REAL money, to stay away from farm work...yet we complain that we can't find any kids to do farm work after we tell them that.
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