Revenue sharing paid out to the workers by the hours they work might be acceptible.
Paying a person by the number of bins they fill in a day creates a situation were every worker is in direct competition with each other seems… not great in the long term for the harvest workers in general.
A single person being able to fill 15 bins in a day might not want to lose pay by only filling 10/11/12 bins and leaving the other apples for other workers. Other workers are then cut out of being able to make as much as there are less apples for them to pick. Feedback loop kicks in where new apple pickers can’t “get gud” fast enough to poach apples from that one asshole who can pick 15 bins worth in a day so fewer and fewer people can view this seasonal work as actually worth while.
Revenue sharing paid out to the workers by the hours they work might be acceptible.
Paying a person by the number of bins they fill in a day creates a situation were every worker is in direct competition with each other seems… not great in the long term for the harvest workers in general.
A single person being able to fill 15 bins in a day might not want to lose pay by only filling 10/11/12 bins and leaving the other apples for other workers. Other workers are then cut out of being able to make as much as there are less apples for them to pick. Feedback loop kicks in where new apple pickers can’t “get gud” fast enough to poach apples from that one asshole who can pick 15 bins worth in a day so fewer and fewer people can view this seasonal work as actually worth while.
Capitalism is a shit.