I'd go to the fields at once if it be worth my time.
That means 50€/hour plus benefits, and fully paid transportation and accommodation.
There are enough jobless people in Germany that should be able to pick any number of fields. For this kind of money, that'd be a no-brainer.
Here we have two problems: Wages are too low to pay for higher food prices that could sustain local field labour, and the majority of average people are already having their hands full with and pockets empty from paying rent, gas, transportation, emergency fund & food as-is. That means, all other jobs also don't pay that well here, and there is simply no local money that could pay high prices.
It's the consequence of having an export-oriented economy: labour must at all cost be as low as possible.
> Wages are too low to pay for higher food prices that could sustain local field labour, and the majority of average people are already having their hands full with and pockets empty from paying rent, gas, transportation, emergency fund & food as-is.
Food isn't the issue on that list. Expenses for food have been stable for 20 years at ~14% of income (down from 45% in 1950). Given that these issues would only affect a few fruits and vegetables (but not grains, potatoes, rice, meat, dairy, which are the main foods), higher wages for harvest workers wouldn't make a significant dent in the average German's budget. Yeah, asparagus would be 20% more expensive and so would tomatoes, but the former is rare and somewhat of a luxury anyhow and tomatoes are cheap - at 1,99€ a kg, you won't notice a price hike to 2,49/kg in your budget at the end of the month.
> There are enough jobless people in Germany that should be able to pick any number of fields. For this kind of money, that'd be a no-brainer.
Following your thought: if it is worth their time and effort. They can’t earn more than €450/month to not have their Krankenversicherung affected. And then, there are taxes, tax classes and whatnot. What if they earn too much and they lose their unemployment status?
That means 50€/hour plus benefits, and fully paid transportation and accommodation.
There are enough jobless people in Germany that should be able to pick any number of fields. For this kind of money, that'd be a no-brainer.
Here we have two problems: Wages are too low to pay for higher food prices that could sustain local field labour, and the majority of average people are already having their hands full with and pockets empty from paying rent, gas, transportation, emergency fund & food as-is. That means, all other jobs also don't pay that well here, and there is simply no local money that could pay high prices.
It's the consequence of having an export-oriented economy: labour must at all cost be as low as possible.