Do people really think grapes are picked by middle class sommeliers, hand picking and sniffing each grape like they're in an advert?
The whole world runs on poverty labour.
this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2024
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Well I mean it may depend. Where I worked one third of the crew was the vinemakers themselves, another third was their close family, and the last third was minimum wage workers. It was of course smaller vineyards than what the article is speaking about but for some cases it is indeed middle class vinemakers hand picking grapes.
Nonetheless, this does not make your conclusion false, worlds indeed runs on poverty labor.
This is capitalism everywhere. It doesn't work without massive amounts of exploitation. We have to accept degrowth if we want our species to survive.
Fixing this problem requires more redistribution of wealth than degrowth. Workers should be paid appropriately for their work, and those at the top should get a smaller slice of the pie.
Capitalism which means that business owners are free to make billions yet those who produce the goods go hungry, is utterly intolerable.
I guess my point was that the only way first-world countries can live in such excess is by massive exploitation of the world's poor. Resources are massively unevenly distributed worldwide, and first-world countries are using like three times more resources than they actually need to, if not more. There are so many people in such abject poverty that real redistribution will mean people like you and me living with less, too.
Redistribution will have to happen, but I think for it to work we'll all have to accept some limitations and a lot less "fun" extra stuff in our lives.
Absolutely. This is a tough pill to swallow for most first-worlders, because they don't want to acknowledge they're a part of the problem.
The closer we get to the roots of a problem, the more people we'll find that contribute to it and the fewer we'll find that are willing to admit it.
Fair enough - you're not completely wrong, looking at it from a wider perspective.
I can't see that ever happening however - the majority of relatively wealthy people are unlikely to ever accept a reduction in their wealth even if it solves climate change, world hunger, whatever.
People want to see an easy solution that doesn't affect them directly. Much more likely is the rise of the far right, riots, etc.
And if you wondered what was the response of Macron's government it was to pass an "executive order" (decret) increasing the range of situation where a farmer can implement a "crunch" mode and suppress the otherwise mandatory weekly rest day.
This was specifically tailored for wine producer to make some of their slaver's practices legal.
It makes sense if it was payed like overtime. Probably worth it for the seller in any case.
we're all breaking our backs to keep the theme park running for the worst people alive
Their suffering makes the grapes sweeter