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That's corporate propaganda, don't fall for it. "We" would be more than happy to do agriculture, janitorial, construction, etc... but we need to be able to feed ourselves and our families on the income from "burger flipping".
You know, like we could do for generations.
I'm with you in the last half but have you tried being bent over all day picking strawberries? I haven't, I do things for work that most wouldn't be comfortable with, sometimes dangerous things. And I'm in my 40s.
Fuck being bent over like that for any amount of time - no way
I have worked several fruit farms. Yes it's hard work. You do get used to it but of course it requires fitness /flexibility that is harder with age. But I've also worked in factories which was hard too.
Immigrants may work these jobs because, like non immigrants, they're desperate. You can find yourself working with people with serious qualifications for better jobs - because they're desperate.
"Taking our jobs" is just a trope.
The problem here is with strawberry monoculture. Big ag has been lying for years that their ways are more productive, and so we have huge stretches of the same stuff. Turns out huge stretches of the same stuff is not good for anyone - not for the plants that are not made to live in monocultures. Not for the workers whose bodies were not made for eight hours of doing the same, not for the soil that thrives on diversity.
So if we could move away from monoculture in anything - social structure, city building, work setup .... why insist in 100 ha of maize and 8 hours of doing the same when we already know that these concepts don't work.