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'They quit after a few hours': Farmers admit they can't find American workers (www.rawstory.com)
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[–] [S] 100 points 1 year ago (32 children)

Nobody is going to work for slave wages and slavery conditions. Raise wages! Improve working conditions! That's the point of the whole Trump immigration policies you dumbass!

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  • [–] 113 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    It is indeed baffling that immigrants worked all this time for slave wages under slavery conditions. USA is full of people taking advantage of others. It is not just Trump, it is the 50% of the population that is anti-social psychopathic sociopath.

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    it is not anywhere near baffling. it is an example of exactly how disgusting and terrible capitalism is. these times should be moving people radically left.

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  • [+] -39 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    The fuck are you talking about? It's the Democrats saying we need a slave class, that we can't deport them, not the Republicans.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Psst: the deranged focus on deporting every single undocumented immigrant actually makes it easier for employers to exploit undocumented immigrants. You can’t threaten to deport someone for organizing labor if the government is only deporting criminals.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago*

    The vast majority of the immigrants being deported are being forced to leave against their will. Why do you think they should have no say in the matter? Forced deportation is violent and cruel, and results in the separation of families.

    If either party actually cared about the people, or budgets, or morality, instead of spending tens of thousands of dollars to remove each person, they would just check them in, have them sign a piece of paper, and grant them legal status.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The point is to get votes and financial support from racists and xenophobes. The policies are just tools for it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    To be fair, in Germany a lot of food is imported from other countries that have different labor protections, so Spanish tomatoes could have different conditions. Of course Aldi and Lidl have popularized super efficient supply chains that help keeping prices low (and AFAIK they pay reasonable salaries).

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    You might want to let Trump know that these are his objectives. I don’t think he’s aware that he’s supposed to strengthen OSHA and fight for higher wages.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    even if they did all that, its pretty back breaking work, you will your back or joints will be destroyed in the 30s, thats why also people dont stay in the trades that long either. disc disease from wear, is pretty hard to treat.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    That would be unpleasant, yes, and would require further efforts to minimize the consequences for those with low incomes (for instance, expansion of food subsidies, which yes would require even more taxation of those with wealth), however, if food prices aren't as high as that now because of near slavery conditions, then there's probably no ethical way to avoid it.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    EXPANSION of food subsidies? They just gutted USDA programs providing food to food shelves all over the country. My local food bank recently switched to every two weeks instead of every week. It's already bad and only getting worse

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You may misunderstand, I'm not making any prediction that this administration or any like what we've had in a long time, if ever, would do such a thing. What I'm saying is that if some government was installed that actually cared, it's not an impossibly to improve agricultural labor conditions without driving the working class broke from food cost increases.

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