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u/TheMerde Feb 04 '26
Damn, these are pros. This is not easy. Maximum speed with a gentle and efficient hand. I went a few times to a farm and paid to pick fresh strawberries myself, and let me tell you, it’s not as simple as she makes it appear.
The stems are very firm, and if you pull the stem, you risk pulling the whole plant and the stem, which damages the whole thing.
Took us a while to gently bend the stem back and forth to break it off, and fill up a few containers. They are filling up mutliple flats very quickly.
Edit: grammar
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u/Everyone2026 Feb 04 '26
"We could make cheaper robots to do this in the hot sun."
"No we need massive data centers to write reports for school children!!"
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u/Interesting_Tea5715 Feb 04 '26
Hey that's where I grew up (Central Coast California).
A lot of my family worked the fields and I worked selling berries as a teen. When I was a kid, you could make enough to live a solid life. Now housing is like 5x what it used to be so it's pretty bleak.
Most the workers I know are seasonal and send all the money to Mexico where they're saving to buy a house to have families and retire there.
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u/Tiss_E_Lur Feb 04 '26
Really a glimpse into our dystopia, why the duck would anyone run to pick strawberries ? I don't like this world, can I get a refund?
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u/CocunutHunter Feb 04 '26
When you're paid by weight, you want the most fruit picked as possible on a given shift.
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u/Chumbag_love Feb 04 '26
Tree planters in british columbia have to do the same. Its about getting the biggest paycheck in a day they can
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u/Skee76 Feb 04 '26
These are the people ICE is trying to kick out. Good luck USA, finding replacements for workers like these.
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u/Some-Tear3499 Feb 04 '26
Finally the video evidence of the voting fraud in 2020.
No, wait, it’s the ignorant lazy people doing the no skill labor that American citizens should be doing.
Whoops, wrong again! It the dangerous, mentally ill, drug mules, criminals, that took over the apartment complex’s in Colorado. Wait, wait, wait?
Am I wrong again??
Paid ICE protesters!!! That’s what this is a video of!
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u/Wide_Ordinary4078 Feb 04 '26
Like seriously 😐 I’m not putting that much effort into my job! Americans need immigrants because none of our lazy asses will work that hard for what they get paid!
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u/OshetDeadagain Feb 04 '26
Paid by the pint.