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patrickg_zill
3061 days ago
Honest question: how do German (for example) farms manage to work, since there are virtually no Mexicans in Germany?
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OliverJones
3061 days ago
EU. People from Turkey, Greece, and other less-industrialized parts of the EU work as migrant harvest workers (and in other laborer jobs) in the more industrialzied parts. The northern EU countries have organized guest-worker programs.
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patrickg_zill
3061 days ago
Is it the situation that the workers show up, do their work, are treated somewhat fairly, and then depart for their home country again?
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kps
3061 days ago
Subsidies and trade barriers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Agricultural_Policy
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philk10
3061 days ago
Eastern Europeans
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stefs
3061 days ago
they too use cheap labor from the east (poland, ukraine, czechia, slovakia, ...)
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