• CrimsonSage [any]
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    3 years ago

    When you are the guy who is paid 7$ an hour to clean up a whole campus full of leaves you are glad to have a leaf blower.

    • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      having done both for more months than I can count, I'd rather use a rake for 8 hours than have a 2-stroke engine on my back for 8 hours, giving me tinnitus and belching the byproducts of incomplete combustion into my lungs.

      leafblowers are the shittiest form of automation and are the choice of owners rushing jobs not workers making a wage.

      • newerAccountWhoDis [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        the choice of owners rushing jobs not workers making a wage.

        Best description of capitalism I read all day

      • CrimsonSage [any]
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        3 years ago

        This is true, for your average suburbanite with 1/8th of an acre they should probably get their yearly workout and use the rake. That being said if you have to do significant landscaping one of those fuckers is a godsend.