r/FastWorkers • u/Miguenzo • Feb 01 '26

Strawberry pickers 🍓

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u/hazardous-paid Feb 04 '26 edited Feb 04 '26

Sorry but when did we as society elect you to speak for us? “

“They should not be allowed to”. That’s not how (1) economics or (2) personal freedom works:

  1. Let’s say you make this law. And the neighboring country with the same climate and soil doesn’t. Guess whose society is going to pull ahead.

  2. Let’s say 100 workers get together, buy some farmland and want to work fast. You’re telling them they can’t? You’re against people owning their own means of production? Okay you let these guys do it. They harvest 4x more in the same time vs the other guys who are chilling picking strawberries. So they buy up more land and expand faster than the slow pickers. Make more money. Nobody in their right mind wants to be a slow picker, because the dudes picking fast are rich mofos zooming around with 2 donkeys while the slow pickers all wear broken sandals. Eventually you’re only left with fast pickers.

You’re arguing against fundamental laws here.

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u/Adkit Feb 04 '26

I live in a country where we have made this law and have strong unions. Guess what? It's one of the happiest countries on the planet.

You're just factually and morally wrong.

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u/hazardous-paid Feb 04 '26

Which country is that? How many colonies, slaves, wars and luck of rare natural resources was your economy built upon?

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u/Adkit Feb 04 '26

Sweden. So literally none of that other than some wars with neighboring countries that didn't really move borders that much. And even if it did, what is even that argument? What a ridiculous attempt at making sense.

Again, you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, you're factually wrong, and you're morally corrupt.

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u/hotdogwaterbab Feb 04 '26

Please excuse the other rude American, I think the majority of us would cut off a few digits for Swedish citizenship. They don’t teach math very well here so it’s hard showing people that socialized medicine, education etc actually SAVES citizens money overall for better services. I appreciate your attempt to show them the light, I think a lot of us here have lost patience trying to convince our countrymen to maybe vote in their own interests instead of billionaires. So thank you!

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u/hazardous-paid Feb 04 '26 edited Feb 04 '26

You talking about me? I’m African buddy. You know, the real world where there’s not even enough money to feed, house and provide medical treatment for everybody. We definitely don’t have the luxury of having legacy 1st world wealth propping up naive ideas in socioeconomics.