I offer you half a million per year to work on a potato farm out in the sticks with no internet/cellphone reception, do you accept?
| For the purpose of this thread, I am now the new happy owner of potato farm really far back in the countryside, and I need a few workers. But I don't want to be the kind of boss that exploit their employees too much so I'm going to be real generous with the salary: 500k USD for a full year of work. This won't be easy though; there will be a lot of manual labor. Gotta work hard so that people can damage their health with chips and french fries. At least 60 hours a week! That's how it works with farm work! And don't forget that you have no access to the internet and can't get any reception with your phone (but I'm willing to let you use the landline if you ask nicely). So how do you feel about this work opportunity? Would you still do it or do you disapprove of it so much that you fell like getting me Luigi'd? |
fleurbleueJan 24, 2025 1:15 PM
| lol, anyone who wouldn't do that is either stupid, close to death or already rich. |
*kappa* |
| I might but I'm not in great shape or desperate need of money. So long as it's location isn't too far and certainly not in Wales then possibly. |
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| I would work on the farm. I am already used to jobs like that. |
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| Doesn't sound that hard, if I work a few years then I can almost guarantee myself being set for life. I worked in the forestry before and I pretty much lived in the middle of nowhere, wouldn't be my first time without internet or any reception at all. |
| Here's my counteroffer: 40 hours a week. 350k per year. 1 year. I'll work hard, and accept the rest of your terms. I won't be needing the landline as I'll have all the entertainment I'll need. It is, of course, non-negotiable. Well, unless the farm is in dire need of a new owner. |
| I'm pretty sure there are people who work way more for way less. |
*:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧May the winds of change transform you entirely.*:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧ |
| Make it a 30 hour workweek for quarter of a million (and free meals obviously, I could put up with a heavily potato-based diet just fine) and you'd have a deal. I'd bring a laptop with singleplayer vidya installed and with a hard-drive full of pre-torrented anime, and some art supplies. |
Lost_VikingJan 24, 2025 1:57 PM
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| Sounds like a pretty good deal to me. Count me in. |
Reply to Zarutaku
lol, anyone who wouldn't do that is either stupid, close to death or already rich.
| @Zarutaku Or maybe lazy and chronically online. Isn't that what they say about today's youth? 🙃 |
Reply to Little_Sheepling
I might but I'm not in great shape or desperate need of money.
So long as it's location isn't too far and certainly not in Wales then possibly.
So long as it's location isn't too far and certainly not in Wales then possibly.
| @Little_Sheepling Well, it's pretty much the point that the location is far. It is the middle of nowhere in my province so you have to take the plane to leave your country! |
Reply to 149597871
Here's my counteroffer: 40 hours a week. 350k per year. 1 year.
I'll work hard, and accept the rest of your terms. I won't be needing the landline as I'll have all the entertainment I'll need.
It is, of course, non-negotiable. Well, unless the farm is in dire need of a new owner.
I'll work hard, and accept the rest of your terms. I won't be needing the landline as I'll have all the entertainment I'll need.
It is, of course, non-negotiable. Well, unless the farm is in dire need of a new owner.
| @149597871 I already have plenty of applicants who accepted my terms. Sorry, but you're denied! |
fleurbleueJan 24, 2025 4:00 PM
Reply to JaniSIr
I'm pretty sure there are people who work way more for way less.
| @JaniSIr Well that's obvious. Most agricultural workers in my country are temporary foreign workers that are basically slaves. The locals don't want the jobs since the salaries are way too low for hard manual labor so only immigrants are willing to do it. And as this thread has demonstrated it, people don't seem to care that much if they have to work harder if there is good money attached to it (of course this is very exaggerated example). |
| The stipulations don't say I can't use the money to eventually improve the place by slowly making those things possible so yes also it doesn't say I have to be there until I die, or that I can't take vacations so it's not that hard |
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Reply to fleurbleue
| @fleurbleue I'm lazy and chronically online too and could be again afterwards, denying that offer would be stupid. |
*kappa* |
| You guys don't know how taxs work. No I'm good. My old job I won't say much but I used make close to 6 digits. |
Reply to fleurbleue
@149597871 I already have plenty of applicants who accepted my terms. Sorry, but you're denied!
| @fleurbleue Don't worry, I think you'll do just fine as my employer. I'll wait for you first thing Monday morning to sign our employment contract, after which I can start letting you have me work for you! |
Reply to MissHeed
You guys don't know how taxs work. No I'm good. My old job I won't say much but I used make close to 6 digits.
MissHeed said: Who said this is legal work? There are all getting paid either in gold ingots or Bitcoin, their choice. You guys don't know how taxs work. |
| No cellphone and no internet would be a tremendous loss for me, but the salary is incredible, and so I'll still ultimately take that 500k USD job offer. For personal entertainment at home, I can still read various kinds of books and manga, play console games, watch DVD movies, watch downloaded anime, movies/film, and TV series on my laptop and desktop, have a bunch of hard drives with me, and make personal artworks if I'm bored of everything else. Making huge down payments for houses that I would like to purchase would no longer be as difficult anymore as well, so yeah, sounds like a pretty sweet deal to me. |
Reply to 149597871
@fleurbleue
Don't worry, I think you'll do just fine as my employer. I'll wait for you first thing Monday morning to sign our employment contract, after which I can start letting you have me work for you!
Don't worry, I think you'll do just fine as my employer. I'll wait for you first thing Monday morning to sign our employment contract, after which I can start letting you have me work for you!
| @149597871 It does feel like it is a good moment to let you know that they are dozen and dozen of barn cats all around the farm. |
| There isn't really anywhere with no internet because satellite and radio internet unless you have a lot of trees with no openings. Even then you can set up a meshnet in theory at least. Plus if I had landline access that means I can tap into it to use DSL internet. MissHeed said: You guys don't know how taxs work. No I'm good. My old job I won't say much but I used make close to 6 digits. Not like it's too difficult to figure out. Usually people assume no tax in hypotheticals without a specific place named. Lets go with 2024 federal numbers for US. $500,000 would fall under the bracket of 35% tax so $175,000 per year 60-hour workweek is 8,760 hours/year So that comes to $19.98/hour though there is also state tax... Regardless at this point it is higher than minimum wage. But there is more. The median annual income for farm workers is only around $25,000 to $29,999 (im not sure if that is before taxes or after, hopefully after for their sake). In terms of agricultural work that is a very good pay in comparison. If it's under the table work (tax avoidance) then $500,000 per year at 60 hour work week would be $57.08/hour |
traedJan 24, 2025 6:21 PM
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| @LoveYourSmile So you want to extort me so that I don't have to deal with a madman, and by that logic if I don't pay you're bound to eventually show up. But I don't mind it if you come to play in my territory. I can't say if you will like the game though. |
| Hell, I'll do it for 50k just get me out of this damned sick society!!! |
| @LoveYourSmile Wait what, how are the jokes you made in your post not the description of a madman? I've got the feeling you're taking things too literally and negatively. |
Reply to fleurbleue
MissHeed said:
You guys don't know how taxs work.
Who said this is legal work? There are all getting paid either in gold ingots or Bitcoin, their choice. You guys don't know how taxs work.
| @fleurbleue bitcoin? Hell nah I'm cool. Plus money not that important too me |
| Sounds pretty good to me, especially for that offer. I don't think I would want to do this long-term though, but we'll see how things are after the year. |
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| A lot of manual labor, bruh my profession is physical job and in Poland it is popular to go to such physical labor, in the past it used to be even slavery labor as there was a lot of controversy and criminality with such jobs in France, Italy, Germany etc. 60 hours a week and you ain't mentioning if it's only day work/whole weekend, if it's whole weekend that's just normal shift, where's the difficulty? But I refuse, I'd rather get less and have opportunity to spend time with archeology colleagues and drink some vodka with them. |
| If you do this then you are a Class Cuck cause you are operating outside your material interests. It is in your Material Interest to treat workers as slaves same as it is in the self interest of the workers to murder you in your sleep and seize your farm. -1000000000000000/10 See Me After Class - Karl Marx |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| The pay on offer for the position is many times higher than any potato farming job in history. The average potato farmer in the US makes ten times less. In various other countries it can be vastly less than that. Suspicious... Perhaps under the "potato farm" there is a secret military installation with experimental technology. Now it all makes sense that communication with the outside world is forbidden. Or perhaps the prospective employer is a MyAnimeList user who lacks a fundamental understanding of economics. Most farm owners don't make over $100K per year from the entire operation, and that's before all the expenses. If you're seriously offering $500K per year per worker, forget about turning a profit and continuing the business...at that point, it's a matter of seeing how quickly you go broke. |
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| As long as I can still play videogames and watching anime on my free time count me In |
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Reply to SmugSatoko
The pay on offer for the position is many times higher than any potato farming job in history. The average potato farmer in the US makes ten times less. In various other countries it can be vastly less than that.
Suspicious... Perhaps under the "potato farm" there is a secret military installation with experimental technology. Now it all makes sense that communication with the outside world is forbidden.
Or perhaps the prospective employer is a MyAnimeList user who lacks a fundamental understanding of economics.
Most farm owners don't make over $100K per year from the entire operation, and that's before all the expenses. If you're seriously offering $500K per year per worker, forget about turning a profit and continuing the business...at that point, it's a matter of seeing how quickly you go broke.
Suspicious... Perhaps under the "potato farm" there is a secret military installation with experimental technology. Now it all makes sense that communication with the outside world is forbidden.
Or perhaps the prospective employer is a MyAnimeList user who lacks a fundamental understanding of economics.
Most farm owners don't make over $100K per year from the entire operation, and that's before all the expenses. If you're seriously offering $500K per year per worker, forget about turning a profit and continuing the business...at that point, it's a matter of seeing how quickly you go broke.
| @SmugSatoko Farming is NOT a business where you wanna turn a profit. 99% of a farmers income is Government Aid. |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
vasipi4946 said: Farming is NOT a business where you wanna turn a profit. 99% of a farmers income is Government Aid. You just pulled that statistic out of your ass. It took a few seconds to search and find this: "According to recent data, around 25% of US farms received government payments in 2022, with the average payment accounting for roughly 5% of gross cash income for those farms that did receive payments" |
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Reply to SmugSatoko
The pay on offer for the position is many times higher than any potato farming job in history. The average potato farmer in the US makes ten times less. In various other countries it can be vastly less than that.
Suspicious... Perhaps under the "potato farm" there is a secret military installation with experimental technology. Now it all makes sense that communication with the outside world is forbidden.
Or perhaps the prospective employer is a MyAnimeList user who lacks a fundamental understanding of economics.
Most farm owners don't make over $100K per year from the entire operation, and that's before all the expenses. If you're seriously offering $500K per year per worker, forget about turning a profit and continuing the business...at that point, it's a matter of seeing how quickly you go broke.
Suspicious... Perhaps under the "potato farm" there is a secret military installation with experimental technology. Now it all makes sense that communication with the outside world is forbidden.
Or perhaps the prospective employer is a MyAnimeList user who lacks a fundamental understanding of economics.
Most farm owners don't make over $100K per year from the entire operation, and that's before all the expenses. If you're seriously offering $500K per year per worker, forget about turning a profit and continuing the business...at that point, it's a matter of seeing how quickly you go broke.
| @SmugSatoko Hey now, don't come in here only to confront my silly story with facts! This is all easily resolved if I'm an extravagant billionaire that like to run a potato farm for fun! |
fleurbleue said: Hey now, don't come in here only to confront my silly story with facts! This is all easily resolved if I'm an extravagant billionaire that like to run a potato farm for fun! More like an extravagant billionaire who likes to lure unsuspecting peasants to their military experimentation facility to transform them into an army of mutant Mews! |
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SmugSatoko said: I've no idea what you're talking about! That'd be like so totally unethical! A-And even if it was true, I'm only doing it to cure the world by reshaping ugly weebs into cute little Mews! (which is something I'm totally not doing)More like an extravagant billionaire who likes to lure unsuspecting peasants to their military experimentation facility to transform them into an army of mutant Mews! |
| This is such an obvious bait thread. I am surprised anyone would post on it. |
| I have approximately 1 terabyte of anime on my computer. |
| I tell you hire someone who needs the money. |
I will accept the offer. I don't mind the rules of no internet or cellphone reception. |
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| There wouldn't be anything to spend all that money on. |
| その目だれの目？ |
| This thread is obvious bait. I am surprised anyone is replying to it. |
| I have approximately 1 terabyte of anime on my computer. |
Reply to DesuMaiden
This thread is obvious bait. I am surprised anyone is replying to it.
| @DesuMaiden You have been bumping my threads quite a lot. Do you wish to gain my attention that much, little Desu? 😘 |
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Hell yeah. Also if I just stay six months, I'd get 250 k right? I don't need more.
If I'm doing alright after the six months, I'd go for the full year.
It kinda doesn't, at least not in that climate. In the winter you work way less than the busy months a year.
If I'm doing alright after the six months, I'd go for the full year.
Gotta work hard so that people can damage their health with chips and french fries. At least 60 hours a week! That's how it works with farm work!
It kinda doesn't, at least not in that climate. In the winter you work way less than the busy months a year.
LittleOwlbear said: This is a one-year contract. But if it can convince you, the farm is surrounded by woods and there is a mountain lake nearby. Hell yeah. Also if I just stay six months, I'd get 250 k right? I don't need more. LittleOwlbear said: Yeah, it'd be more realistic that you'd work like 80hrs per week in the summer and do pretty much nothing in the winter, but I wanted to keep it simple. For the sake of this thread, let's just say that I built the largest agricultural greenhouse in the world just so I can cultivate potatoes in the winter. It kinda doesn't, at least not in that climate. In the winter you work way less than the busy months a year. |
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You’re going to make me work shirtless, aren’t you?
| @PeripheralVision You can keep a shirt on, but it must always be white and wet. |
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