cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/35845659
For 20 years, Tim O’Harrow has asked lawmakers to acknowledge that America’s food supply depends on immigrants. Politics went in the other direction.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/35845659
For 20 years, Tim O’Harrow has asked lawmakers to acknowledge that America’s food supply depends on immigrants. Politics went in the other direction.
17 Comments
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 33 pts · 166d
That can't be true. Immigrants were taking everyone's jobs. Why didn't he pick one of the white guys that wanted them so badly?
setsubyou@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 165d
According to the article, he was hiring Americans at first. However:
Then he switched to Mexicans.
greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo · 7 pts · 165d
And he did that because they were cheaper than an automated dairy shed.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 165d
Mexicans will get it done with no fuss. They're worth double. I used to be in the roofing biz, and you WANT a Mexican crew on your roof. They didn't come cheap, especially if they knew what they were doing, and had a crew chief that spoke English. They were worth every penny.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 165d
all the ones around me here in Australia are automated.
high wages are a hood thing, they make innovation for drudgery. The corollary is, how to spread the productivity gains? here in Australia it seems to be by having more and more "Bullshit Jobs" rather than something like a UBI.
Teppa@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 156d
It lowers interest rates, which raises money supply, so those people can attain more money as more money is available.
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 164d
I have one of those.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 165d
I.e. Then he switched to an oppressed underclass that is too desperate to call out.
If you can't handle call outs you don't have enough staff. Full stop.
Agrivar@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 165d
And there it is. Undereducated doofuses getting brainwashed by right-wing talk radio. We're never going to make any progress until those clowns are gone.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 165d
In fairness to these mumbling idiots, they've been brainwashed for at least 30 years, they had the shitty education that only the US can offer to ensure you remain dumb enoughto be controlled...
Is it really any miracle that their base is just that stupid?
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 165d
May he lose his fucking dairy farm. I have no patience left for these obstinate fools.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 166d
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This was actually a really good and enlightening article. Why it took these cats 20 years to catch on I cannot say, but it definitely sounds like they have caught on.
Cargon@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 165d
Sounds like Tim is a failed patriarch then. If he had any honor he would end his weak lineage.
devolution@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 163d
Translation: A Republican slave owner relies on slave labor.
daychilde@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 165d
And all of a sudden, just like that, media can refer to them as "immigrants" and even "undocuments immigrants" and not "illegals". Amazing.
SpicyLizards@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 166d
I expected it to remove immigants [sic], not my slaves!
Atomic@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 164d
he never thought maybe he needs to change his approach after 20 fucking years or being unable to do so!?
You are not supposed to persuade the politicians you support. The politicians are supposed to persuade you to support them.