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Not many conservatives on lemmy I'm guessing.

Didn't some morons vote for trump literally because of the egg prices?

I think the real issue is we're using undocumented immigrants to do these jobs. They don't get the same protections that legal workers get.

Funny how we never demonize the fucking companies taking advantage of these people.

Don't worry, I'm sure the tariffs will help bring food prices down.

Oh they can still use inmigrants, they just have to get them into private prison work programs first.

Then watch Trump and GOP blame the liberals for it.

... and more than half of Americans will agree with that conclusion.

How about if you are hiring undocumented immigrants for this work, let's not arrest the immigrants, let's arrest the owners of the farm.

Then we'll sell the farm off to someone who is willing to pay a living wage to people, and not slaves with no other options.

Howdy, a reminder that we live in a market economy. What will happen is that if no one shows up for work at the wage offered to illegal workers, gradually, the rates offered will increase until someone shows. You'll notice America has no shortage of other classes of workers, such as sewer maintenance engineer or garbage collector. The reason is those jobs were never held by illegal workers. Will produce be as cheap as it was before? No, but then again it should not be a fundamental part of our economy to employ illegal workers. Either reform immigration law to allow for migrant workers or get rid of them. This weird middle-ground where we tolerate illegal employment in exchange for subsidized prices for produce is ridiculous. If we wouldn't have allowed this in the first place, the problem would not be so hard to solve today.

I'm sure they will blame the libs and the Democrats for it because they are the ones pushing for a bigger minimum wage. Without it, employer's can collude to drive down wages, making higher paying alternative jobs non existent. Everything pays pennies!

A fundamental part of our economy/way of life should not be dependent on near slave labor

Planting is easier to automate than harvesting. Pretty sure everything has been using seed drills for a while now. Harvesting and meat packing are going to get hosed though.

That's the plan...private prisons... Fill them with legal residents and brown and black citizens. Then you get self sustaining legal slavery!

Bravo! Slow clap please!

While certain things can be automated the robotics technology to fully replace humans is probably still decades away.

Mostly likely they will use prison slave labor, using the same immigrants.

The farms actually pay alright. Migrant farm work is good work, but it's remote, and seasonal, making it impractical or impossible for most people. Usually farm workers move with the seasons to harvest and work in farms in different climate zones on rotation, these workers have been targeted by anti immigrant policy since the Clinton administration, and no one has ever worked to reduce their burden and the red tape it takes to migrate in and out of the US as these migrating workers tend to also work in Canada and Mexico. More and more, we can't harvest our own farms in CA and we import more and more food. Weakening our economy, eliminating exports, and losing power because we need other countries with less racist laws to provide our necessities. Again and again. The racist bullshit that is America harms and hinders everything.

I'm fine with prices going sky high so long as we are eliminating exploited labor.

The reality is though these folks will seek jobs elsewhere and without any social safety nets they are in for some harsh times. I can only hope they have enough friends and family here to make it.

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