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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.
There's no amount you could pay me to be a farmer, just like there's no amount you could pay be to become a doctor, a salesman, a lawyer, etc. I'm in tech because I like what I do.
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.
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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?
I see a potential solution to Los Angeles's homeless population.
Farming is one of the most dangerous jobs in the US. There are reasons aside from money that people choose to pursue other careers.
> Wages rise on California farms. Americans still don’t want the job No. Californians don't want the jobs. Americans live in more than just CA, I know a lot of people in CA find this hard to believe but there is a whole world outside of Sillycon Valley.
> No. Californians don't want the jobs. Americans live in more than just CA Yes, but if they wanted the jobs, they'd come to CA for them. > I know a lot of people in CA find this hard to believe but there is a whole world outside of Sillycon Valley. Most people in California—who are, after all, themsleves outside of Silicon Valley, which is a small piece of the state—are well aware of that.
Immigration laws seem likely to be enforced, illegal alien labor scabs self-deport in advance, and wages rise. Not hard to understand.
> illegal alien labor scabs self-deport in advance, and wages rise You know when there was a bug in the codebase so hard to fix and for so many years that developers started building on top of that and considered the bug to be 'not really a bug' but more of a design decision. And then some new hire comes along and fixes it without a deep understanding of the dependencies and breaks existing functionality. And then th…
Law is the foundation a society is built on. If breaking the law becomes the norm, a society will slowly disintegrate. If laws create more problems then they solve, but are enforced, they are eventually changed. This should be the norm, not breaking them.
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.
> Wages rise on California farms. Americans still don’t want the job No. Californians don't want the jobs. Americans live in more than just CA, I know a lot of people in CA find this hard to believe but there is a whole world outside of Sillycon Valley.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/05/17/the-law-of-...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/alabama-law-drives-out-...
Maybe they can get those senior citizens living high on the hog of Meals On Wheels to get out there and pick crops?