Even when I was a teen in Iowa, not that many young people wanted to detassle, walk beans or the like.
detassling is a bitch!
[Even when I was a teen in Iowa, not that many young people wanted to detassle, walk beans or the like.]
They liked to detassle corn until legislators and the media told them no one wanted to do those kind of jobs. They said the same things about working in restaurants, roofing, carpentry, etc. They were brainwashed.
I did those for minimum wage. Those wages had to go up above minimum wage ($3.35) in subsequent years, and they had to use machines, too.
Detassling was very short term work and the pay was terrible. Kids were looking for work that lasted the entire summer.
My two uncles and aunts grew up on a farm/ranch in Oklahoma, up to milk cows well before dawn, chopping and picking cotton, raisng beeves and the hundreds of other things they had to do to keep their heads above water during the dust bowl and Depression.
First opportunity, they were all out of there: Army Air Force, college instructor, CPA and Army wife.
And I’ve bucked bales of hay all day. Farm livin’ ain’t for the faint of heart. I’m thinking the average unemployed hipster or wannabe gangsta wouldn’t last a half hour.
Nope, and I didn’t like working in paper mills, either. But it was that or not go to college.
Our population is spoiled.