Re:Britain to Foreign Workers: If You Don't Make $50,000 a Y...
by douche on Thursday February 04, 2016 @02:36PM
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Maybe if these luxury crops can't be sold economically without resorting to illegal labor, they should be replaced with other products that are more economical.
I can go pick my own strawberries in New England when they are in season for $1-2 a pound. That season might only be about three or four weeks in June/July, but there's other stuff the other eleven months of the year. If I want fresh strawberries in December, they ought to be at a premium.
We used to use a lot of teen-aged labor for this kind of low-skill seasonal work, and I don't necessarily think there's anything wrong with that. There's still parts of Aroostook county in Maine where they have a weird school year, because traditionally they needed every warm body to get the potato harvest picked in early fall.
I can go pick my own strawberries in New England when they are in season for $1-2 a pound. That season might only be about three or four weeks in June/July, but there's other stuff the other eleven months of the year. If I want fresh strawberries in December, they ought to be at a premium.
We used to use a lot of teen-aged labor for this kind of low-skill seasonal work, and I don't necessarily think there's anything wrong with that. There's still parts of Aroostook county in Maine where they have a weird school year, because traditionally they needed every warm body to get the potato harvest picked in early fall.