Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by RestlessMind 3059 days ago
"Most americans are unwilling to work on farms..."

at the wages offered by farm owners!!! This is very similar to arguments trotted out in support of shitty H1B jobs. You want workers for your jobs? Increase the wages. Increased wages will make you raise the prices for your customers? Do so, or find the efficiencies in your business. Increased wages might drive consumers to produce grown in foreign countries? Have appropriate trade agreements protecting vital industries like agriculture, similar to what we have for defense (and after all, trade agreements are not a suicide pact (TM)).

1 comments

do you have any idea how deeply subsidized farms are in the US?