Sugar is Sweet. The Work Is Not

I think that the crummiest job I have seen other then a Filipino garbage collector is a sugarcane harvester. These guys go out into the hot fields with their big machete's and long clothes and bend over all day long whacking at the thick hard sugarcane stalks to cut them down. There has got to be a zillion mosquito's in these fields and it would be impossible to wipe the sweat dripping from your brow with your hands dirty from work. So they work all day in the blistering sun in the humidity making roughly $2/day. The majority of sugar cane plantation owners pay less then the $4/day minimum wage for agricultural workers and they hire children which is illegal. Nothing screams to me the importance of education like driving by these guys working in the fields trying to feed their families. So they work chopping down the sugar cane and then load bundles of it up onto the truck that will then take the sugar cane to the sugar mill. This is by far the biggest export on our island, it's filled with the sugar cane fields which once made Bacolod one of the wealthiest cities in the Philippines! It's so sad that these harvesters are taken so much for granted while the owners gain so much. How is a country ever going to change when it's so corrupt?