Learn to appreciate the service and goods made by others. How to appreciate service and goods from others more in your life and how to assign due value to others' work?

In modern society many of the goods are produced by machines. That makes products impersonal and lessens the emotional value we have for factory made goods. However there are goods made almost entirely or entirely by humans. Often pure hand work without any machinery involved. Such products include:

• Most agriculture products, fruits, vegetables, rice, etc
• Medical services, nursing, care givers
• Therapeutic services
• Teaching and educational services, schools, vocational training
• Repair services for most household goods and appliances
• Many more similar services and products

Our own esteem for most daily needed products and services has fallen and reached a near zero point. We have ended up in a trow-away society of surplus. We order big portions of food, trow away or return half or 3 quarter of our planet - to be thrown into trash. We throw away half used or partially damage goods that still can be used and helpful - just to replace same goods with new ones.

The waste of our modern society of past few decades has increased excessively., One of the many causes is our inexistent appreciation for other people's work and products. Since western world like central Europe and USA has long time ago started to outsource simple labor to cheap labor countries like China, South east Asia, India and other highly productive very cheap countries. Such countries only are cheap labor countries due to excessive exploitation by employers and foreign investors. Without exploitation there can be NO cheap products. Those cheap products have been produced sweating blood and giving all life and all freedom by many employees who have nothing much better than a life as a modern slave of our profit oriented industry.

But since the purchasing / retail value of such products of components are cheap, our appreciation of such cheap labor products also is cheap - meaning near zero.

We often have lost the connection to reality on this planet. Just because something is available at a dollar per kg or little above, thus a tiny fraction of our own western hourly wage, we consider such services or products as worthless based on our own wage as a measure for value of human work.

Learn to appreciate others and other people's work and products

The best method to learn to appreciate other people's products for our daily life is to actually do that work at least for a year or several. The ideal method would be all younger ones, after basic school education, first travel and work across the country and planet as a working / learning tourist in various fields of work. Mainly in the many agriculture work across the globe. Sharing some of the hard farmer's work for a year or two definitely teaches you to appreciate every single rice corn and every single potato on your table for an entire life and possibly beyond! Also volunteer jobs in countries in trouble such as Cambodia, Africa or South America would be an excellent choice. There are many different jobs including assistant caregiver, assistant nurse, construction helper, etc that are available without additional education. All you need is the readiness to be useful and the willingness to work long hours hard work just for free accommodation, food and may be a small tip by the end of a season or minimal salary.

Such work should be done by ALL, even law school graduate, university graduates of any topic as well as by all future CEOs or future presidents or kings! To spend years or better decades of life doing real basic needed work at whatever that industry and culture offers in exchange, should be a part of basic education for all humans.

A far lesser degree of help to learn appreciation of other people's work and contribution to our all life can be achieved by spending active working vacation in above mentioned situations and industries. Of even lesser value would be an intense visit to various labor intense work sites on this globe.

As soon as we have actually worked in many of the work intense industries providing our basic needs used and enjoyed by most of the entire global population, we will definitely be ready to pay MUCH more for for the basic supplies of our life, like basic food, spices, basic living and services around our healthy home and housing. Including community services and medical services.

To give you a small idea of what I mean by appreciate basic products in our life, I will below provide a brief description of a product most people all around the world need and use on a daily basis. Salt!

Salt fields Cambodia - Kampot

To provide healthy natural salt for our daily food, we have either salt mines or salt fields. Here below we see a brief introduction to salt field production of our daily salt. Imagine our daily food without salt, without sugar, without basic seasoning ....

The salt fields needed to produce a tiny country's salt needs is huge. Kampot has some 1000+ hectares of salt fields. Most work in the salt fields is hard, hot and demanding. There are no smiling eyes in the salt fields below during my entire visit.

You certainly appreciate having salt on your table, at home and at any other place where you may eat.

Salt crystals forming in a salt field

But do you actually know how much work is involved to get salt from the ocean onto your table for your daily food? Do you know that such salt field worker often get as little as 2-3 US dollars per day - a wage that needs to support an entire family - just as dear and as valuable as your own dear family!

Salt is piled up - then harvested by women

Since most of the salt harvest and salt field work is done by women in Cambodia, the price and appreciation you are willing to pay reflects your own appreciation of women in general. Keep that in mind next time you court a girl and propose. All women are equal - all women are angels made by God. To value women, you also need to value the work and goods women provide to human society!

Women working in the salt fields of Cambodia

Directly watching the hard work of these salt field workers gives you an increased appreciation of the true value of our daily salt we take so granted. No one ever has to calculate or safe on salt just because of its price. IN fact salt is so extremely cheap that we often get a small salt bag in fast food restaurants, use part of it, and dispose the remaining salt. In the eyes and mind of most people salt is so natural to have in abundance on our table for every meal we enjoy that few or no one ever considers the huge amount of work included in the production of salt and how low those ten thousands of salt workers around the world earn to provide such luxury item.

Salt fields to provide for our daily food

While salt actually is a luxury item, salt at the same time is essential for our health, wellbeing and gourmet joy. For humans as well as for many animals salt is essential in daily nutrution. Lack of salt could result in substantial medical conditions and damage to our health.

We easily pay hundreds of dollars for iPhone, games, music CDs, fashion, jewelry, and many other fashion items of no true need nor use for basic health. Most first world people easily spend a multiple for gadgets and throw away accessories of what we spend for truly needed daily food items such as salt, sugar and basic seasoning. Why ? Because we lack appreciation and knowledge as well as practical experience in real world work such as farm work, salt field work, sugar plantation work, mining, fishery, construction work, etc.

During the ongoing global crisis there might be millions of industrial jobs deleted, erased, dumped. For the simple reason as the world can easily live and prosper, be healthy and happy without all such industrial jobs of gadget and trash or environment pollution producing industries.

Yet such basic jobs like salt field work, farming, mining, fishing, basic construction, repair, carpentar, etc will survive all crisis because humans need such products even if mankind has little or no appreciation of the true value of such "simple" daily goods and services that make our basic life worthy and enjoyable to live.

Open your mind and heart. In future crisis situation there might be job openings in such simple and low paid jobs - one such job may be the only survival string reached out to you when you loose your current job or when your current entire industry defaults and goes into bankruptcy. There might be days or years in the life of millions where such simple and low paid jobs are all that might be offered to you - to teach you appreciation of other people's value of work, to teach you the value of other people - people all made by God!

Love and Bliss

hans