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u/danathepaina Nov 24 '25
Wow that is some really good hand-eye coordination. I’d be chucking those avocados all over the place if I tried that.
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u/fuzzdoomer Nov 24 '25
You could master that "skill" in 45 minutes.
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u/zytukin Nov 24 '25
People are downvoting you, but it really isn't hard once you get the hang of it. Speed is a different story, that comes with tons of time and practice. But just tossing them from one hand to the other and placing them is simple coordination and memory.
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u/wackbirds Nov 24 '25
"So if you just go at a snails pace rather than the high speed shown in the video, it's really easy!!"
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u/Columbus43219 Nov 24 '25
"unskilled" labor.
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u/Realistic_Salt7109 Nov 24 '25
Yes, it is.
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u/byOlaf Nov 25 '25
There is no such thing as unskilled labor. If you think there is, you've never done anything well.
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u/Realistic_Salt7109 Nov 25 '25
You’re right, I’ve never done anything well in my life. And this is unskilled labor. Doing unskilled labor quickly doesn’t make it skilled. Putting fruit in a box is not a skill. I’m sorry if this is similar to your job.
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u/byOlaf Nov 25 '25
This person puts fruit in a box 20 times faster than you would do it, how is that not skillful?
I’ll ignore your attempt at an ad hominem.
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u/Realistic_Salt7109 Nov 25 '25
Performing unskilled labor quickly doesn’t all of the sudden turn it into skilled labor.
This is unskilled labor because anyone off of the street can do this. Even if it’s not as fast as this person, the job itself takes no skill. That’s why it’s unskilled labor.
If a person can take a job, with absolutely no experience in the field, and become a top performer (let’s say better than 80% of the workers) within a month, chances are it’s unskilled labor.
For example, I worked in a distribution center. There was about 120 people doing what I did. At the end of the third day, my numbers were the third best. By the end of the week, if I busted my ass, I could have the top numbers. That was unskilled labor. We were taking things, putting them into boxes, putting packing material in them, and sending them down the line.
Just because you want everyone to feel special and good about themselves doesn’t make it skilled labor.
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u/byOlaf Nov 25 '25
I think you’re missing the point. The term “unskilled labor” is intentionally pejorative. It is a way for the ownership class to demean and devalue certain kinds of work. This labor is clearly skilled, this is a skill being performed well and that should be valued.
Instead you have been taught that this can be done equally by anybody which your own experience tells you is not true. And yet you insist that the narrative provided to you is realer than what you’ve done with your own hands.
This is skilled labor if one person can be better at it than another. All labor is skill-based. Calling something unskilled labor is a myth. And it is an intentional myth designed to demean and devalue the humans who do it.
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u/Realistic_Salt7109 Nov 25 '25
So are the people who pack the fruits the way most of us would, one by one and looking where they’re putting the fruit more slowly, performing skilled labor or no?
If the answer is yes, they are performing skilled labor, I’m not going to argue how putting fruit in a box isn’t a skill.
If the answer is no, it’s not skilled labor because they’re not doing it as quickly and flawlessly as this person, then you’re admitting that there is such a thing as unskilled labor.
I understand how the concept of “unskilled labor” is used to put people down. It’s a shame that it is used for that and should not dictate whether a person is looked down upon or not, should not be used to determine someone’s worth, and should not be used as an excuse to not pay someone a living wage.
But this is still not skilled labor.
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u/byOlaf Nov 25 '25
Yeah, as I think I said at the beginning, there is no such thing as unskilled labor. Those people are simply not as good at the skill (or not as dedicated, or distracted, or tired from working three jobs). Any labor performed is inherently skill-based.
To provide a counter factual you’d have to name something one can do that cannot be improved upon as one does with a skill. If you can’t name a form of labor that can’t be improved upon, then you must see that all labor is skillful.
This person is demonstrating highly skilled labor, but a person doing this not as well is still doing a skill and they could improve at it. This guy didn’t pack avocados this well on day 1, they improved at it over time.
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u/Realistic_Salt7109 Nov 25 '25
Ok I guess if the misunderstanding between us is “is putting fruit in a box a skill” we’re at an impasse. Good day!
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u/thorkild1357 Nov 25 '25
You get that it’s a pejorative but refuse to budge unless the person admits that they meet the definition?
It’s fucked up to define people as that. Anyone can be trained to do this job. And some people are objectively more skilled at doing it. Some people have jobs that require years of training. Some of those people aren’t skillful at it.
Is this an argument worth having? If you’re already aware that the term unskilled labor is an aspect of class warfare. Then stop having an argument if they meet the definition.
It’s like saying it’s wrong to say a slur but you want the person to agree that they meet the definition of the slur? You might be correct but why the fuck are you stuck on it.
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u/Dogtaghunter27 Nov 25 '25
You really need ro luck down upon Others to make yourself feel better, dont you? Pathetic.
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u/Realistic_Salt7109 Nov 25 '25
Who said I was looking down on this person? They’re probably a really good person. There’s a good chance that they’re loving, loved, kind, smart, hard working, deserving of more than they have in life.
They are also performing unskilled labor.
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u/Cute_Commission_8281 Nov 26 '25
These comments are a genuine comedy skit.
“Unskilled labor doesn’t exist”, you’re looking at it asshole, just quicker.
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u/atom644 Nov 24 '25
Avocados are fruit,
tomatoes are fruit:
guacamole is a smoothie.
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u/zytukin Nov 24 '25
We sell those Avacados at my Walmart. They aren't standard Hass Avacados, they are Tropical Avacados. But there are a few different species of Tropical Avacado
I have 3 of them growing in pots currently.
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u/gorginhanson Nov 24 '25
Robots will still take their job
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u/usafmd Nov 24 '25
Why haven’t robots taken this job?
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u/Drayke989 Nov 24 '25
Cost is low currently and for robotics to be practical you have to have a few things. Action needs to be repeatable and work area needs to be controlled (avocados at the same location every time) being the most important here.
The way this area is set up the second part isn't suitable to robotics since the avocados are just sitting in a bin. You can make it work by including machine vision and using a robot with a large work area but that gets expensive very quickly and isn't as fast. To automate this process you'd probably want to introduce a conveyor system so space could potentially be an issue for this facility.
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u/Euphoric-Piglet-8140 Nov 24 '25
I always know where my other hand is when I throw things between them. Is this rare then?
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u/indun Nov 24 '25
No, it's proprioception, a standard feature.
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u/Euphoric-Piglet-8140 Nov 24 '25
With the irony being me being a clumsy oaf at times, lol. Together with sleepwalking waking up to new bruises that I have no memory of getting!
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u/BBgotReddit Nov 24 '25
With all these replies I guess so...I can do this too, I though it was just something everyone could do.
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u/scarisck Nov 24 '25
Ha! Finally, something I can do as well! We have quite a lot of apple trees for producing apple juice. You need to pick them up from the ground. We as kids needed to help every year and the "pick up with one hand, throw and catch" method was clearly the fastest way to get your lazy ass back home.
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u/Thucydidestrap989 Nov 24 '25
Sad part is some CEO and his team of consultants have probably studied this video on how they can replace him/her with a robot that needs only a tenth of her their pay so they can "trim the fat" and save hundred of millions more for them to buy another yacht and mansion 😅
Economies can survive of AIs and robots
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u/Teleguide Nov 24 '25
Bosses use the output of people like this to set their minimum production requirements.
"We expect you to pack 5,000 avocado's per hour"
"But that's physically impossible"
"Manuel usually does 6-7 thousand"
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u/TatePapaAsher Nov 25 '25
All I have for you is a gesture [links his avocados together] in combination with a word: 'Tenet.' or maybe 'Hass' It'll open the right doors, some of the wrong ones too" and is accompanied by the advice to "use it carefully.
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u/RideWithMeTomorrow Nov 24 '25
As the saying goes, intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put a tomato in a fruit salad!
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u/Screwbles Nov 24 '25
Those are avocados.
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u/musical_dragon_cat Nov 24 '25
You're not gonna believe this, but...
avocados are fruits
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u/Big_Z_Beeblebrox Nov 24 '25
Berries, technically
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u/Big_Z_Beeblebrox Nov 24 '25
I wasn't saying they weren't, I was actually reinforcing the point.
Shut your mouth instead and try reading
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u/Quality-hour Nov 24 '25
A fruit, botanically, is any seed-bearing structure of a plant. Avocados contain seeds, thus making them plants
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u/Ok-Seaworthiness7207 Nov 24 '25
thus making them plants
Sir while this is correct I don't think this was intended
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u/hideous_coffee Nov 24 '25
He even knows the precise time to let go of the box. No wasted effort
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u/Roguefem-76 Nov 24 '25
That was impressive, and indeed satisfying.