~75% of farm workers in Bakersfield didn't show up today 
https://old.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/1i7r7ot/75_of_farm_workers_in_bakersfield_didnt_show_up/
ITT hysteria over food shortages, mocking Americans wanting good wages and wanting the brown wage slaves back in the fields
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I'm not used to liberal spaces anymore its weird to see them all mocking Americans for wanting money, advocating for CA separating and valuing illegal immigrants so much.
Personally I only think there will be prices increases on specific crops for now, and if Trump doesn't pull back farmers will just purchase automated picking machines they only didn't before because mexicans were that cheap
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Wait, why are the grocery prices going up now?
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See, slavery is a heckin' goodarino, chud.
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Always was
This situation is a confluence of issues that should have been addressed long ago. Work visas for temporary workers, particularly for agriculture and industries like construction, should have been much easier to access. These visas provide limited-term opportunities for workers during seasonal periods, encouraging them to return to their home countries afterward.
Most of these workers would prefer to return to their homes and live like kings off their wages earned here, but they don't because they fear they'll never be able to come back, or the opportunity cost is simply too high. Wets crossing the border aren't throwing parties about crawling Cape Fear-style into the undercarriage of an eighteen-wheeler at 3 a.m. They're doing it because the visa system is fricking r-slurred. They'd rather not play Border Escape Room, but if your choices are (A) pay $10,000 to a coyote who looks like he moonlights as a s*x trafficker, or (B) sit at home and watch your kids starve, you'd probably pay the coyote too. Then you'd climb into the greasy belly of a truck, praying the driver doesn't decide to run from ICE and leave you locked into the secret compartment in 120 degree weather.
Unfortunately, these programs didn't really get implemented, and part of the blame lies with the heroes of the working class, heckin wholsum unions. Let the workers come in, pick the strawberries, build the skyscrapers, and then, you know, go the frick home to Pipicacatitlan, right? Frick no. Unions went full sneed ahead. They saw the words "migrant labor" and saw the writing on the wall that nobody would put up with their bullshit if there was slack in the labor supply.
However, the demand for migrant labor isn't just because Americans refuse to do these jobs or won't work for the wages offered. The reality is that there simply aren't enough Americans available to perform these tasksβpicking oranges, for example, isn't exactly a job that excites Zoomoids in large numbers. Cultural and societal preferences for less physically demanding or higher-status jobs, combined with the location-specific nature of agricultural workβnobody dreams of moving to fricking Fresno Cucklifornia after college, reduce the domestic supply of labor willing to take on these roles. Approximately 73% of U.S. agricultural workers are immigrants.
Obviously, having a underclass of fig-pickers isn't exactly the technological utopia we dreamed of. It's kinda fricking dirty, isn't it? Like the moral equivalent of kneeling on a fentanyl addict's neck and then wondering why they aren't happy. However, temporary workers though a streamlined and non-r-slurred H2-A process could unfrick this. They'd come, work, pay taxes, and then go home to their families with money in their pockets. Everybody wins. Except nobody can agree long enough to let it happen, so instead, we've have a ticking time bomb. An H2-A revamp avoids breeding resentment and would even improve relations in the Americas.
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Sad that the most thoughtful commentary I've seen on the immigration issue in a long time was here, halfway down the page, on a site about clowning melodrama on the internet.
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That comment was r-slurred though
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If I was an r-slur would I be posting on rDrama.net?
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Honestly with a lot of the farms affected being a stones throw from silicon valley you'd think a bunch of the tech gurus would actually invent something useful to actually automate a job that deserves to be automated instead of making the fifth twitter clone this week but what do I know
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lol that would take practical engineering
bit diddlers begin and end in (bloated) software
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John Deere: Am I a joke to you?
For real, though. Farm equipment manufacturers are trying to automate stuff, but going about it the wrong way (eg - farmers can't repair their own equipment), which is putting people off.
Plus, the cost of new equipment can pretty steep, much more than migrant worker wages.
So, farmers can either buy new equipment that they can't maintain without additional cost and isn't 100% automated yet, or shell out far less for labor and continue using equipment they already own.
Doesn't take a genius to crack this nut.
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Well I guess the hope is that increased demand for automated farm equipment will force farmers to buy new equipment or incentivize new companies to hop into the industry. But again, I am talking out of my butt
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Well you sure as frick don't know what gets the VC buxx
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Good post
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Neighbor work visas for migrant workers has been a big thing since the 1940s at least so I stopped reading.
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The way they are right now is functionally the same as them not existing for a lot of smaller employers who don't have a legal team to process visas for their farmhands
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Literally don't care they all have to go back and all the visas ended (unless they're female and hot)
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Counterpoint: You're a dirty BIPOC on a buffalo
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Take that back
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okay i'm sorry
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The left made the labor market a ticking time bomb, and the right was glad to play along for the fireworks. Fantastic.
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When did I say that?
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Thats the implication when you support paying illegals 5 buck an hour so you can drink milk like a baby
Trans lives matter
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5 bucks an hour isn't slavery doe
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5 buck it good deal take deal
Trans lives matter
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When did I say that I support that?
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Just now
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You just did chud
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so ur against for profit prisons then???
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I'm 100% pro-slavery. We need to put BIPOCs, Mexicans, and criminals on chain gangs to pick cotton while the threat of this behind them looms. I'm also pro trans rights and pro LGBT+
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But those were for clearing mine fields?
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More like clearing mein fields of slaves
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Low wages are LITERALLY slavery but only when it's illegals. No I don't support unions or raising the minimum wage why do you ask?
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!chuds why do libs keep busting out this tired old point?
Turns out lowering gas prices does more for grocery costs than coddling violent Haitians and Venezuelans does
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Because they're crying out over losing their slaves (Again)
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The supporters of only one party in America honor the confederacy as their ancestors. Remind me who that is again?
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"Uhm uhm but what about this minority group of union jack and nascar fans!? HUH HUH HUH?!?! GOTCHA CHUD!!!"
Your arm must be hurting from all that reaching. There was no party switch btw either.
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!r-slurs
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You should divorce your r-slur and marry me at this point if you're going to be on my peepee all the time and give me stupid r-slurred takes.
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Pro-Slavery is fricking when David Duke calls you a fricking cute twink
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I'll top you and
@Lappland can watch
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Why would he do that?
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Bad faith
since:
there are no slave states
they don't celebrate it
and the KKK endorses them in bad faith and support the other party
Please do better and stop spreading your anti-Democrat propaganda and GOP lies
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Who said that?
Also calling the confederate battle flag a union jack lol.
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Nobody. I said it preemptively in case you were going to bring up another stupid argument.
idk and I dont care. Its an ugly flag.
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Go back to Britian cuck that's my heritage you're talking about.
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better shut up before I melt another one of your statues.
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What's your heritage?
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A war that ended 160 years ago means you have to accept the third worldization of your country without complaint, forever
No trans lives matter
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Who said that?
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The Democrats?
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Given how many comments this has gotten and how upset it has made you guys I'm gonna say this as much as I possibly can.
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I'd find it funnier if he hadn't actually fulfilled so many promises and then some by day four. You are just r-slurred and do not know how much food costs are affected by labor
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Nah I'm just gonna keep making fun of you guys and get you upset exactly like this, thanks.
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How very reddit of you.
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ladies, ladies. You're both cute twinks.
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Actually fascinating I should learn more about the cost of labor and food. I'd gladly pay a dollar more for a pack of strawberries (wouldn't happen) if citizen harvesters were decently paid. The average distance food travels is over a thousand miles or something wild so makes sense how much gas is a factor.
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Because the labor is cheap r-slur
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So 6% inflation
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I don't get it
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Neighbor gas prices are already low lol
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Last I checked, American gas prices are nearing 6 gorillion dollars, sweety
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Let's get them lower
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Good luck. We're already at peak oil exports
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lol no we aren't
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I mean literally we are. We can expand from here, but we're at net oil exports which is the first time in a long time.
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It's in character for republicans to raise prices by ending slavery
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bc of republicans the price of cotton has gotten way out of hand
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America just shipped it in from Europe instead lol
Same price, but manufacturing base got lost
Sounds familiar
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The common sense solution is always forgotten with wingcuckery
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But then companies would have to pay minimum wage and might actually face consequences for poor working conditions. Right now you can pay them pennies and just get a new batch whenever ice picks up the old ones.
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I have a better idea
coyotes gross more than $5 billion a year
So make it a federal monopoly
Think of all the funding when the illegal immigrants money go straight to the treasury AND tax evasion is super illegal so anyone who doesn't pay go straight to tax jail
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Trump specifically ordered the prices down
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Because you relied on illegal, semi indentured slave labor to keep prices artificially low for a long time, and that's just not going to work forever.
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I did? I personally did this? I don't remember that.
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Why do you keep posting in bad faith?
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Yes its your fault. Everyone kick his butt.
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You benefited from it and apparently seem not very happy to see change, so yes.
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The fact that the system has become so reliant on illegal labor doesn't validate that. Tapering off our dependence of this just like tapering off our over dependence on international trade will take time and there will be shocks along the way given the overreliance. What we get on the other side will be much better. And your Taco Bell wages will probably go up
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Didn't read lol
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Works at Wendy's and cant even read. Obamas America
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You seem upset. Are you okay?
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It's been an awesome week actually. Thank you for asking.
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Oh, that's good! I'm glad to hear it.
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If you say this every time someone points out you're a low tier wagie people will start to notice
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you seem very concerned and upset over me as well.
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You'd think so
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I know so
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I'll willingly pay (and do already pay) higher prices for quality goods made in my country, especially local businesses. Any righto bitching about prices as a result of actions is a good goy consoomer and in essence a neocon.
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Because you live in Denmark?
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Housing, health care, and education are expensive for BS reasons
Food, electronics, and general stuff are cheap for BS reasons
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