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Wages rise on California farms, Americans still don’t want the job

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Re: Wages rise on California farms, Americans still don’t want the job

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I work at the LA Times and conducted the data analysis of wages included in this story. We published all the code behind it on GitHub. AMA. https://github.com/datadesk/california-crop-production-wages...

Great work guys at LA Times! That is very transparent.

Re: Wages rise on California farms, Americans still don’t want the job

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Well then obviously wages haven't risen enough. For an extreme example, pay me 200$ an hour and I'll quit my web dev job and do it myself.

Although it's obviously not going to happen, even if it did you couldn't afford buying that same product as a direct result of the increase in cost.

Re: Wages rise on California farms, Americans still don’t want the job

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I see a potential solution to Los Angeles's homeless population.

You mean, give them homes on farms? Sure, why not.

Why give them work with decent wages? Just give people what they need: free stuff!

Seriously, you were just joking, were you?

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