Re:Is there anywhere in the world someone can just live for ...
by dragonwriter on Saturday November 04, 2023 @11:35PM
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> The house isn’t a shack or something either - it’s an older farm house, but it’s a three bedroom, two bath home that was remodeled not long ago and has a half acre or so of yard. It would be a great place to raise a family.
For raising a family on $18K/yr + free rent?
It's basically, everything considered, the equivalent of entry -level fast-food pay, but worse because its mostly in non-monetary form, for a job with much greater skill and responsibility demands.
Yeah, I bet its hard to fill.
> All of that said - farmers like that don’t see their long-term help as just “employees”. They feel responsible for their welfare, and end up seeing them as part of the family.
Even if its true, what that ultimately means is that, as employers, they expect employees to sacrifice obligated, contractual compensation for the hope of future non-obligatory generosity in am a patron-client relationship rather than a bargained-for-exchange market relationship.
For raising a family on $18K/yr + free rent?
It's basically, everything considered, the equivalent of entry -level fast-food pay, but worse because its mostly in non-monetary form, for a job with much greater skill and responsibility demands.
Yeah, I bet its hard to fill.
> All of that said - farmers like that don’t see their long-term help as just “employees”. They feel responsible for their welfare, and end up seeing them as part of the family.
Even if its true, what that ultimately means is that, as employers, they expect employees to sacrifice obligated, contractual compensation for the hope of future non-obligatory generosity in am a patron-client relationship rather than a bargained-for-exchange market relationship.