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> The reality though is very different. The jobs that are seasonal, tough, and do not pay well. I've never understood this line of reasoning. Given the crucia
by DoofusOfDeath 9y ago
> The reality though is very different. The jobs that are seasonal, tough, and do not pay well.
I've never understood this line of reasoning.
Given the crucial nature of food, I would expect that were illegal immigrants to leave the picture, the agriculture system would adapt by some combination of (a) higher wages and (b) more automation.
Presumably this would lead to food becoming more expensive (at least until automation improved), but I doubt we'd see famine.
> The jobs that are seasonal, tough, and do not pay well.
When I was a kid, kids on summer vacation did exactly this kind of work.
- raesene6 9y agoTo me, far more likely is that locally grown food would be displaced by food grown in lower cost countries. That already happens to quite a degree in the UK, but it's mainly to make things available "out of season" from what I've seen. A significant hike in UK grown food costs, would just lead to more being imported, unless of course you start going down the line of more import tariffs which is of course possible but tends to have other consequences in terms of things like trade wars and reciprocal tariffs on UK produced goods. Of course you could eschew tariff protection and allow food production to move to other countries, but that in itself has potentially serious consequences as a trade war or some kind of event which disrupts supply from those other countries could endanger the food security of your country...