@RoryDuncan1966 I hate to be that guy and I know to be skeptical if anything coming out of a US university, but it does line up with our precious conversations..
Source: Harvard Business School https://t.co/j5nOLLTalu
In Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev, young Boriska claims
“I know a secret! My father knew the secret of copper for bell casting. When he was dying he passed it on to me. Nobody, not a single other person knows it, only I know it! Only I!
Boriska then organizes the village artisans,working for months, casting a giant bell from scratch. Boriska collapses alone in the mud where Andrei Rublev finds him sobbing as the bell rings for the first time.
Boriska confesses that his father never passed on the secret before dying and took it to the grave. The bell’s success was essentially a miracle where he had acted on faith, intuition, and sheer will.
Andrei breaks his years long vow of silence while comforting Boriska and says these comforting words
This farm owner has bales of pine straw made from Longleaf pine trees.
Each of his employees make $1.50 for every bale they make. They usually do 200 bales a day. He says they average about 20 bales an hour.
The farmer sells these bales for $5 each. Many other places are a lot more expensive people said.
He says these kinds of trees are prominent all over the South and people use the straw for landscaping instead of mulch down there.
Many people said that is too much hard labor and that they have machines that will do that. But the owner said the machine bales are not as good. The machines break a lot of the straw and machines include sticks and other things vs this hand picked straw. He said this old fashioned way is still used by a lot of independent farmers.
$200 a day, $1,000 a week, is not bad money. Some make up to $1,500 a week working extra hours. He said his farm will produce about 20K bales of this straw.
Do you think that is way too much work for $200-$300 a day? Or do you think that is an honest wage for an honest day’s work?