Susanne Allen @evensong.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Have you ever picked okra? Pick okra and you'll never consider farm workers unskilled again. 152998
Bunnicula'd berries @frozen-cranberry.bsky.social · 11/11/2025I'm pretty sure we try to pretend farm work is unskilled because if we admitted just how much skill is involved (so! much! skill!), we'd also have to talk about paying a fair wage. 533311
Allena (Ah-lay-nuh), she/her I support 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇺🇸🎌 @allena-bryanne.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Not just that, but we want an excuse to not have to do it. “It’s unskilled and backbreaking so…. Teach your kids something else, yeah…” 020
Frank D’Elia @frankd7.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Not just skill, but physical endurance in weather conditions most people wouldn’t send their pets out into. 22218
whirlwindhelp.bsky.social @whirlwindhelp.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Imo it's because any ancient job (fisherman, baker, seamstress, farmer, SWer, etc etc) allows someone to own their own means of production EASILY, so these industries are targetted the hardest for slavery by the capital-owning classes 140
Richard Hellinga @richhell.bsky.social · 11/11/2025I always think of farm work as the definition of back-breaking work. 030
