Michael Perelman wrote: > > Farmers like workers to bend over. It makes it easy to spot who is > relaxing. If strawberries were grown in raised beds, like you see in some > greenhouses, little bending would be required. But mechanization would > be difficult. It's been about 55 years since I picked strawberries, but my memory of it is crawling along on one's hands & knees. I can't imagine bending to do it. Of course with the huge (and hence not very sweet) strawberries of today picking would go much faster I suppose. But all fruit picking is miserable work. Incidentally, on the romanticization of agriculture. Biologically modern humans go back 100,000 years; agriculture 12,000 or so -- it's a late perversion, like writing. Industry, on the other hand, goes back several million years. And it is around industry, play, and moving about, not being stuck like a slug on one plot of land, that human life ought to be organized. Agriculture by its nature is anti-human, and hence in a decent society would be radically sub-divided and spread out over the entire population, like KP in the military. Scrubbing toilets is far more human labor than tilling the soil. Carrol
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