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[–] JargonWagon 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Didn't they try this already on like teenagers or college students or something? Didn't it go horribly wrong?

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

+3,000 student athletes in The A-Team. And yes it went horribly wrong. Some students started unionizing immediately.

"Then you go out in the field, and the first ray of sun comes over the horizon. The first ray. Everyone looked at each other, and said, 'What did we do?' The thermometer went up like in a Bugs Bunny cartoon. By 9 a.m., it was 110 degrees."

Garden gloves that the farmers gave the students to help them harvest lasted only four hours, because the cantaloupe's fine hairs made grabbing them feel like "picking up sandpaper."

The farmers sheltered them in "any kind of defunct housing," according to Carter — old Army barracks, rooms made from discarded wood, and even buildings used to intern Japanese-Americans during World War II.

[–] Sanctus 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm bookmarking this article. Probably gonna use it a lot these coming years.

[–] LordKitsuna 1 points 4 minutes ago

Save it as a pdf (using the print option) in case it gets disappeared

[–] JargonWagon 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thank you!! I was trying to find this but was struggling to find an article about it.