Fascinating video. You really don’t realize the simple things we take for granted are the result of somebody’s very hard labor. The number of people harvesting the tea is astonishing.
The videographer kept showing the same beautiful young lady over and over. The flush of youthful beauty sure fades quickly with backbreaking work like that.
When I worked in remote parts of China in ‘76 - ‘77, I saw little kids that couldn’t have been older than 4 years old unloading bricks from river barges with woven baskets on their backs like is shown in this video.
Try to imagine a place in America where women that look like that are doing work that hard.
Never happen.
In the West we have created machines to do the backbreaking labor that used to involve peasants or slaves (in many countries).
It is very expensive to maintain a machine that can do what a surplus of people can do, especially out in the boondocks.
So Asia will do what Asians have always done - throw thousands of peasants at a problem.
I remember a video of construction workers building a bamboo scaffold up the side of a building in Hong Kong - must have been from decades ago. Once secured it look surprisingly safe - at least by their standards ...