semsurrrrrrrr wrote:
A few decades ago, however now.
If you think younger Americans will work these jobs you’re deluding yourself.
Define living wage?
I always thought the European seasonal worker model seemed pretty balanced... you get cheaper labor but you give them benefits. Your costs are lower and you are more competitive and the laborers go back and spend the money in their countries and can feed their families.
When trump got elected some farmers were talking about coming up with some seasonal worker structure in fear of the cheap labor getting locked out under trump. They want it all though, ultra cheap Mexicans and central americans and they want the subsidies to continue and demand to remain strong.
But lets be clear... aint no american breaking their backs outdoors picking strawberries for a whole shift 6-7 days/wk. They work at McDs, but not this... I don't know what the price point would be to incentivize them, but surely at even with ultra high wages they would not get nearly enough domestic workers. This reminds me of the WV 300lb dude groaning about Dems and claiming that trump was going to give them the opportunity to mine their land again. The guy was sweating profusely just standing there talking, I could only imagine his condition after 20min with a shovel. There is a lot of delusion about the work americans would be willing to do. I also think it is absolutely insane to suggest people would survive without cheap chinese goods and labor. No US manufacturer would be competitive enough to survive for long and all would need massive subsidies just to operate.