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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh for the love of God with the apple picking. "Hey kids, let's go pay to do the work of underpaid migrant workers. It'll be fun!" I will never understand this. [/quote]
Maybe your children would learn to value hard work.[/quote]

Oh FOR THE LOVE.  Could you have a more privileged response?  Taking your kids apple picking DOES NOT teach them to value hard work.  And it is so completely insulting that this is what you think.  There are people who do this kind of back breaking work all day every day for a pittance.  That is hard work.  Driving your privileged butt to an orchard for one day is not even remotely the same thing.   [/quote]
Calm down, you seem irrational af.

Which is it? Are the children/parents doing the "work of underpaid migrant workers" or not? Of course they're not working for the hours and low pay of the actual workers, but if they're doing it for the hour or so and they think that it's hard to do then it becomes a teachable moment about how some people do this all day long and at a much faster pace just so that they can feed their families so maybe think about that before you eat half an apple and toss the rest etc.
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Except that you literally take all the low hanging fruit and leave the hard stuff for the workers - lol! These are the same people who send their kids on "service" trips to help little brown children for a week and of course, to work on their Spanish and their college essay. [/quote]

Op here. My parents used to take me and my brother when we were children. We didn’t have much money and it was one of my favorite childhood memories. My father probably won’t live long so I’m going for my dad. He grew up in a farm in another country.[/quote]

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