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Re:Child Labor Is on the Rise by giantg2 on Sunday June 04, 2023 @01:29PM (#36187520)
Depends on the food. Yeah, being paid 1-2 cents per pound of tomatoes picked won't raise the price much if you make it 10-20 cents even. But it can raise the price of other things like dairy where it's an hourly rate and usually smaller farms.

If it's such a small increase, then why hasn't it been raised/changed? Why do we still subsidize a lot of farm stuff too?

Re:Child Labor Is on the Rise by Ekaros on Sunday June 04, 2023 @02:17PM (#36188003)
From local price of 56 cents per litre of milk to the farm. Even if we doubled that it wouldn't still be that expensive for consumer. And that would cover doubling of the wages. As that price already includes all other costs.

Labour isn't actually that big of an part.

Re:Child Labor Is on the Rise by giantg2 on Sunday June 04, 2023 @03:05PM (#36188474)
Most consumers think milk is expensive at $3-4/gal. Maybe it's different where you're at, but in the US it's a race to the bottom. Much of the agriculture relies on subsidies because we can't compete on price when doing global exports.
Re:Child Labor Is on the Rise by screwturner68 on Sunday June 04, 2023 @08:18PM (#36190841)
Farming is the only business in the US that is propped up whether they grow crops or not. We pay these millionaires all sorts of money to grow crops nobody wants and we also pay then not to grow crops nobody wants. The fact of the matter is if we didn't states like Iowa and Nebraska would simply close down, they have no industry and no reason for people to live there but since they have equal representation in the congress they get billions just to exist. We could close down several Midwestern states and give them to Monsanto and we'd all be better off...except the millionaire farmer that didn't get a subsidy.