Self-driving truck delivers butter from California to Pennsylvania in three days

Re:Self-driving truck delivers butter from California to Pen... by bsder on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @10:18PM (#21768997)

> I also don’t see how migrant workers are being exploited? How is anyone exploited if they are not driving long haul truck routes?

Because you are making it cheaper to transport from California agribusinesses who are known for violating labor laws to Pennsylvania who is known for enforcing labor laws.

This is in opposition to local manufacturing which becomes more economically feasible the more transport costs.

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Re:Self-driving truck delivers butter from California to Pen... by jelliclesfarm on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @10:27PM (#21769031)

Can you share your source for the above statements re ca agribusinesses violating labor laws etc. Thanks.

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Re:Self-driving truck delivers butter from California to Pen... by bsder on Thursday December 12, 2019 @03:22AM (#21770250)

Okay, I'll play along even though the most cursory Google search has tons of hits:

"Verify: Are half of California farmworkers undocumented?" https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/verify/verify-are-h...

Deporting illegal workers is causing farm workers to finally be above minimum wage: "Wages rise on California farms. Americans still don’t want the job" https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-farms-immigration/

I chose those two articles because they are quite a bit more "pro-immigration" than others and most likely to blunt the knee-jerk "Yer a raciiiiist!" idiots.

The real problem is that rather than deporting all these people we should be hitting the agribusinesses with gigantic fines and jail time for exploiting them in the first place. If some CEOs wound up in jail for employing undocumented workers and not paying minimum wage instead of just getting a slap on the wrist, this problem would self-correct.

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