Work Trade exchanges on the workers part in general go double what they would be paid *cash* for because when you receive compensation for skills, labor, and services rendered the trade has little value compared to *cash* because it has no freedom, the worker can't buy anything with it so it doesn't have the same value.
I lived in a isolated community in the mountains where work trading is common. To deal with disputes that naturally rise it has been recognized that the worker does deserve a higher rate because the value is so narrow in scope, you can't spend it or make choices with it but the work of a tractor mechanic for example is super valuable and saves a bundle for the receiver is services.
A mechanic generally gets paid any where from $25-$100 per hour, generally around $40.
25 hours weekly would cost you $1000.00 for you to hire a mechanic, at the humane rate that should be applied to trades the value you would be receiving is more like $2000.00 a week to have a mechanic providing thT much work for you.
Similarly with plumbers and electricians.
I'm curious how much you rent your cabins for.
At 25 hours a week it's pretty consuming and actually a lot to ask the worker to then go get a paying job off site to support themselves where they would be receive a higher salary.
Work traders lose freedom, it's not the best arrangement unless it's for like five hours a week because it's basically feudalism, and the worker does not have the freedom and liberty that *cash* provides them. They can't save up and move out, they provide tons of help but if they want to move on they have no funds to do it because they were receiving no pay. It's servitude, similar to slavery, not to compare it to American slavery of African people, but more like old school slavery in that spaces don't have the benefit of accumulating wealth for independence or to pass on to the children as do say land lords etc.
A mechanic could provide those services to Santa Cruz and live in their own cabin as a free human making choices of what you buy, aka it would allow them liberty as a human in today's society, where as work trade for the worker is taking a step back in social evolution several years. It sounds like the business you run is totally dependent on this worker you seek for maintaining cabins, water, electricity and anything mechanical while the owners are making a profit of the land, the work, and the worker.
So I'm wondering if in exchange for such a valuable commodity such as mechanic, electrician, plumber, carpenter if you would drop the number of hours required enormously, or also pay $25/hour for the services while providing one of your commodity rentals, or a percentage of your profits for integral services rendered?
