• trek32@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 months ago

    You foam at the mouth about how my numbers are wrong, and then you post a link that validates the numbers and even suggests they are higher:

    The annual salary for farm hands in 2024 range from $45,862 to $81,812, according to Indeed. The average salary is $61,254

    Perhaps you need to slow down a bit to understand averages. Some people make less than $61k, some people make more than $61k, and for the average to work that means that for some that makes less there’s got to be others that make more. According to Indeed, that range is between $46k and $82k for FARM HANDS. Not part owners or some other capitalist arrangement, farm hands according to the stats.

    By your own admission, there are a good deal of farm workers out there earning a salary of $82k /year, which BTW is higher than lots of people with master’s degrees in the city.

    Since you are not contributing anything to the conversation, there’s no point in me replying further.

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      3 months ago

      By your own admission, there are a good deal of farm workers out there earning a salary of $82k /year

      I’d ask how you got to that conclusion, but obviously there was no logic involved…

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      …well then i’ll contribute as a child of farmers: your data is grossly misrepresentative largely due to differing definitions of ‘farmer’

      …if we define farmers as the folks doing actual farm work - both physical labor and small-farm management, AKA family farms - you’ll find an economy governed by word-of-mouth entrepreneurship and hardscrabble side-gigs which scarcely shows up on human-resource databases like salary.com…if we define farmers as corporate-governed field-managers and operators segregated from the business management and manual labor pools, then HR databases are reasonably representative of that select class of personnel, not too different from most small-town managerial work…

      …in the end, the former class is endangered and the latter a diminished and readily-exploited class, so does the distinction matter to folks struggling to survive either way?..i will say this: farms wait for no man’s schedule, government subsides come with commensurate capital debt, $25/hour comes with commensurate student debt, and secure retirement, health care, or social safety nets are far from reality for either class…