• ameancow@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    They are framing it like plucky shirtless college boys might wanna go pick cucumbers for a weekend to make a few bucks for rootbeer floats down at the soda-fountain.

    One of the things that infuriates me about our species broadly is how terrible people are at visualizing actual, real systems and their scope and scale.

    If you don’t know anything about the factory-farming our society requires to survive, you should probably take a short tour of the massive machine we’ve built and depend on so you understand the scale of the problem and why even the immigrants we have/had now aren’t even enough to keep the system running. This is why aging populations are a huge problem, this is a foundational cornerstone of our whole civilization, much like medicine and vaccines, and it’s being waved off like something we can just swap out demographics for funsies and to give bro’s trying to afford their new baseball mitts and textbooks, all good, right??

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      1 day ago

      I mean, they could work a summer picking produce and have enough money to buy a house, at least that’s what the old man down the street told me. And he owns a house, so I bet he would know.