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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.

  • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    30·
    3 days ago

    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.worldEnglish
      11·
      3 days ago

      According to the article, he was hiring Americans at first. However:

      “They would call five minutes before milking time, and say, ‘I’m not going to make it,’” Tim said. “Well, who’s going to milk the cows? We’re trying to run a business. It just wasn’t working.”

      Then he switched to Mexicans.

      • surewhynotlem@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        3 days ago

        Then he switched to Mexicans.

        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.

        • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
          9·
          3 days ago

          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.netEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          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.