r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/dingusbob69 • Dec 31 '20

Video Wild Blueberries being harvested

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u/V1k1ng1990 Dec 31 '20

Maybe you have 10% less product but you’re only paying 1 guy instead of ten

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u/therandomways2002 Dec 31 '20

And the guy is inevitably doing it many times faster than the ten put together.

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u/V1k1ng1990 Dec 31 '20

It’s kind of like lawns. Originally they were super bourgeois because they required employees or slaves to hand cut them with scythes. Now anyone can pick up a motorized lawn mower for $50 used

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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20

Those perfectly manicured lawns that were a feature around the palatial estates found in England, France et al. were all done by hand? I always wondered how they did that between, say, 1300-1900 without motorized tools, but a damn scythe?! That sounds enormously labor intensive and would require a great deal of skill on the part of the laborers to achieve a uniform length

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u/hazycrazydaze Dec 31 '20

What a life, though. Live on some huge estate and just maintain the lawns and gardens all day? Sounds pretty nice for the time tbh.