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Re:Alabama immigration: crops rot as workers vanish to avoid... by Consultant32452 on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @06:11PM (#13648186)
>but that's not a price the public would pay for your crops.

Maybe the public needs to get used to paying premium prices for premium work instead of outsourcing slavery to other countries or importing cheap slave-wage laborers illegally.

Re:Alabama immigration: crops rot as workers vanish to avoid... by icebraining on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @06:33PM (#13648345)
Or some will just automate, while others go out of business, and then you're left with still more expensive crops than before without any workers getting paid to pick them.

But I'm sure those "slaves" will thank you.

Re:Alabama immigration: crops rot as workers vanish to avoid... by Consultant32452 on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @06:52PM (#13648459)
Wall Street's interests are diametrically opposed to workers. Wall Street wants to turn good jobs into shitty jobs and ship them to more desperate poor people in poorer countries, whereas workers want the exact opposite. We've had 30 years of free trade and basically no border. A nudge in the other direction isn't going to be the end of the world. A blip on the jobs radar which comes along with stronger worker rights is gonna be okay.