American Citizens Picked Vegetables and Fruit in 1959
So I was chatting with mom today on mothers day about making strawberry smoothies this morning and she mentions off the cuff to me: "Your Grandma and I used to pick strawberrys at the Driscoll farms back in 1959, they used to pay us .10 a pint."
I almost spit up my coffee all over the cell phone.. I was like, Whaaaadya say mom???? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Uhhhh... mom, did you just say that American Citizens used to pick strawberrys, uh.. and got paid a decent wage for it?
Now, .10 a pint doesn't sound like a lot, but a pint is tiny! And if you picked 20 of those in an hour, 2.00 an hour in 1959 was not a bad wage at all and certainly wasn't a slave wage either!
So, how is it that back in 1959 strawberrys cost around .50 a pint at the store, citizens were working those jobs and companies stayed in business?? To listen to these corporate talking heads these days you'd think that hiring a citizen to do anything would put them out of busines! :roll:
Keep up the good fight everybody. We all know what liars these jerks are.
And happy moms day. :)