In the advanced capitalist countries of the world, employment in agriculture is under 5%. Under 2% in the USA. If we cycled this work it would just be a couple of weeks per worker. I'm not against the idea, but it probably just makes more sense to focus on agricultural productivity and automation.

One of the greatest crimes the commies did in Eastern Europe was forcing the aristocrats to work like peasants. Just imagine! A countess! Working with peasant women! The horror!

Here's how liberal historians write about this crime:

I don't know about you, but I was nodding like Jack Nicholson in the famous gif. Certain 1%-er families who were part of the elite in the regime that committed the white terror and the holocaust were froced to live like serfs for a couple of years. Again, these stories are recounted as a deportation that is comparable to the ethnic cleansing and genocide that was done by these elites...

Anyway, this was a tangent. Everyone able should do some kind of manual labor in their life at some point.

Japanese people already do this. The kids do menial tasks like cleaning their classrooms, cooking, and serving each other

Global chore list

Che was big on this, too.

I agree. Also people should be trained how to grow their own food/make things themselves. There are people in the USA who go their entire lives unable to cook a single meal.

i want to do it so bad, just like give me some training wheels and make it so i dont get yelled at too much. thats what got in the way in my past attempts.

This is a pipe dream to even try to figure out how you would coordinate it but I've thought for a long time it would be cool to do office work half the week and actually work a trade thenother half.

Would deffinitly help with burnout to not be doing the exact same job every day for decades.

The challenge would be making sure everybody got a decent wage through it which would basically require getting rid of wages.

This is what Concerned Ape won't tell you. We gotta make a cottagecore farming simulator that feels awful to play.

Children? Not unless it’s done under some serious supervision so they don’t get abused, but if it was it would be a good learning environment, like a camp where you learn for a few weeks of the year is fine.

Yeah I lived with a middle class British girl that had to do farm work for 6 months in country Australia for her visa and it changed her outlook on manual labour and the working class.

Like she did bartending and barista work before so not unfamiliar with the working class and their struggles but 6 months of having to get up before dawn to work in a field to enrich her millionaire employers caused her to develop class consciousness and solidarity in real time.

Going from "Be nice to your bartender even if they make a mistake :)' to breaking up with her boyfriend of 1.5 years because he was like "the working poor should just start their own business if they don't want to be poor" (he had a drop shipping """business""" that started with a loan from his grandparents and also it barely made any money)

I mean nothing wrong with making privileged teens work in some shit job for a while. Rather than never doing remotely difficult work (even a shit fast food job) breeds the most ghoulish boug children.

Obviously not kids, but 17-20 is prime time for this shit

Down to the countryside for all children who attend “grammar school” or “Latin school”

My problem is that the hard working and underpaid agricultural workers who will have to work alongside these kids did nothing wrong and do not deserve to be exposed to the British upper class.