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The simple counter is to offer higher wages. We absolutely have the capital and tech to ensure people can make a decent living doing farm labor. It would requi
by aksjsnxkkxx 1y ago
The simple counter is to offer higher wages. We absolutely have the capital and tech to ensure people can make a decent living doing farm labor.
It would require less billionaires and less chatgpt wrappers with billion dollar valuations.
- msgodel 1y agoThis. Labor markets cut both ways but you have to actually follow the rules for it to work.
- 2muchcoffeeman 1y agoWait till you find out how much legal workers who make clothes in America make.
- msgodel 1y agoGo move to South America if you think their workers have something we don't and will make your life so much better.
- 2muchcoffeeman 1y agoThat’s a silly response. Why do you think workers are exploited? You say we need to play by the roles, but you’re going to balk at the cost of playing by those rules.
- msgodel 1y agoWe have absolutely decided we're fine with it. We'd prefer a functioning domestic economy to cheap luxuries.
- acjohnson55 1y agoI found the most Planet Money episode on this eye-opening: https://www.npr.org/2025/07/11/1255526971/garment-workers-clothing-made-in-usa https://www.npr.org/2025/07/11/1255526971/garment-workers-cl...
- dv_dt 1y agoWe have the capital and tech to ensure out entire population has living wages, and yet and increasing swath of them do not
- s1artibartfast 1y agoor they just go out of business and we import our non mechanized crops to developing countries. Farming isn't a high margin business and if it were as simple are rising wages and prices, you wouldn't see the farms going out of business. There is a reason European farmers are deeply subsidized.