⟳ Репост от William Holz
this article is a good example of what i mean — literal kids work the orchards where the bulk of our oranges/lemons are grown, earning a piece-rate that can work out to less than minimum wage, and i genuinely don’t know what you or i can do about it even if it disgusts us. that’s shame
California's child farmworkers: Exhausted, underpaid and toiling in toxic fieldsState officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found.www.latimes.comrax ‘levon honkers’ kingwhen i describe the american condition as one of existential shame, i don’t mean that every individual person should walk around bedeviled by personal guilt, but rather that the unusually high quality of life & safety most americans get to enjoy comes at a cost few of us have to worry about