That’s still a lot to unpack.
Seasonal workers coming in for harvest have a tough job, but it has nothing to do with kids occupation.
For a comparison point, french wineyards use a flock of workers coming from everywhere around europe (including french students and unemployed) to harvest grapes for a few weeks and go back to whatever they were doing.
It doesn’t need to be some tangled mess of undocumented immigrants with no rights, no contracts etc., that part is more to me a reflection of US politics than anything.
Re:Just Too Efficient
by SuoDuanDao on Sunday July 12, 2020 @09:02AM
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US politics, and probably the history of farming in the country. Megascale farms with labour being a commodity have been the standard since before the country was founded.
Re:Just Too Efficient
by JoeAltmaier on Sunday July 12, 2020 @09:06AM
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Average farm size, in America, is around 450 acres. Not even a square mile. Maybe 'megafarm' is an exaggeration.
Re:Just Too Efficient
by SuoDuanDao on Monday July 13, 2020 @07:32AM
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Average farms in low and middle income countries are under 5 acres, in other rich countries they're around 75 [1].
Plantations are like nation-states - inefficient, but powerful enough to bankrupt smaller competitors in the same market.
[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X1...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/us/coronavirus-undocument...
> "Farmworkers, Mostly Undocumented, Become ‘Essential’ During Pandemic"
> "Immigrant field workers have been told to keep working despite stay-at-home directives, and given letters attesting to their “critical” role in feeding the country."