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You say that and yet they opted to shut down production as opposed to raising wages. That seems to be a better indicator of the underlying reality than your opi
by anm89 6y ago
You say that and yet they opted to shut down production as opposed to raising wages. That seems to be a better indicator of the underlying reality than your opinion.
- mcv 6y agoI think part of the consideration is that if they pay fruit pickers more now, they fear they may have to pay them more in the future as well. It's also possible they simply refuse to pay fruit pickers more because they strongly believe fruit pickers don't deserve better pay. There are often a lot more factors at play in these sort of things. Some rational, some maybe not so much.
- merpnderp 6y agoSo they set a whole season's profits on fire to stick it to seasonal workers? That seems so irrational as to require at least a smidgen of evidence to take seriously.
- notional 6y agoEver hear about NYC landlords who leave ground level properties vacant for years because they'd rather lock in a high paying tenant. Same principal.
- ryandrake 6y ago“The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country.”
- wing-_-nuts 6y agoWhat is this from? Obviously it was written a long time ago, but what a travesty.