Side with White Supremacy brehs....

[hashmander]

Gonna have to pay Americans at least $40 an hour to have them happily work in the fields in the sun all day

https://archive.is/C9B3K#selection-939.0-986.0

Vernon employs 65 field workers, and on this morning was paying 30 of them as much as $44 an hour for piece work, based on pounds of plums picked that day. The workers stood on ladders reaching up into branches of trees bursting with fruit and filled plastic crates — suspended on their chests by straps crisscrossed over their backs — with some 25 pounds each of plums.

“It’s a physical job,” Vernon said. On days when there is less demanding work, like pruning and thinning, the workers make $5 per tree, or around $22 an hour. About 70 percent are undocumented, he said.
Vernon, a Republican who voted for Mr. Trump, said he would like to hire American citizens but has found it impossible to find people willing to do the work.

“They haven’t applied, and I don’t think this is a low-wage job,” he said. “If this is a low-wage job, then what is McDonald’s? There’s a lot lower wages paid than what we’re paying.”
He has a fruit packing shed that employs an additional 70 people year-round. “And that’s maybe 45 percent legal,” he said. “That pays about 10 percent less, but we have a higher percentage of legal people because it’s socially acceptable to work in a factory.”

Vernon acknowledged that many laborers were willing to make less money in a factory simply to avoid the scorching weather and demands of field work. But, he said, “if your children were out picking plums, even if they were making twice what they would at McDonald’s, you’d be embarrassed to say they were picking plums.”

During an acute farm labor shortage in the San Joaquin Valley in the late 1990s, Mr. Cunha was part of a program that tried and failed to get American citizens — California welfare recipients and the unemployed — to work in the fields. There were myriad problems. Potential workers did not want seasonal jobs in 100-degree heat, had no transportation to the fields, often needed child care and got little to no training.

“It was a total disaster,” Mr. Cunha said. The program reached out to prisoners but, according to Mr. Cunha, the prisoners’ union said there needed to be two guards in the fields per 20 prisoners, as well as three meals provided per day. The idea was abandoned.

Tree fruit farmers depend heavily on manual labor since plums, peaches, nectarines and apricots need to be picked carefully to avoid bruising. “The most sensitive fruit of all is an apricot,” Mr. Cunha said. “If you look at an apricot, it’ll turn brown on you.”

 

[charknicks]

They'll be working for more than $3/hr.

I honestly dont even know what people who work in the fields make these days.

Looked it up- per Zip Recruiter, average farm worker in the US makes $17/hour. Im sure its less in these rural areas.

How does that compare to what warehouse workers make?

 

[KnickstapeCity]

Those WFH jobs are going away, and as AI develops more people will be displaced and jobless.

The jobless American people will fill those roles. And, one thing about humans is that we can adapt to just about any environment. It is a gift. So, the whole laziness argument is a non-issue tbh.

I’m almost certain that you’re either delusional or just an optimist. Either way you’re a fukking fakkit.





Americans are extremely LAZY people.

 

[Outlaw]

Those WFH jobs are going away, and as AI develops more people will be displaced and jobless.

The jobless American people will fill those roles. And, one thing about humans is that we can adapt to just about any environment. It is a gift. So, the whole laziness argument is a non-issue tbh.

fakkit you go work in the fields

 

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https://archive.is/C9B3K#selection-939.0-986.0

So folks was too cheap to hire prison labor for the price of 3 meals a day but is paying people $40 /hr with no proof beyond his word. Yeah, that sounds right.

 

[Tair]

I’m almost certain that you’re either delusional or just an optimist. Either way you’re a fukking fakkit.





Americans are extremely LAZY people.

American productivity still leads the world

Innovation and a vibrant tech sector continue to give America a competitive edge

www.economist.com

 

[Scustin Bieburr]

The lackluster pay was the main reason Americans didn't do those jobs.

Working for $3/hr while trying to support a family is not possible. Now, Americans will be paid a decent wage to do those same jobs. And Americans will likely do a better job to be honest.

 

[Killer Instinct]

The lackluster pay was the main reason Americans didn't do those jobs.

Working for $3/hr while trying to support a family is not possible. Now, Americans will be paid a decent wage to do those same jobs. And Americans will likely do a better job to be honest.

 

[Guess Who]

I can't wait until we beat white supremacy again by having another Democrat in office

Looks like the best weapon against white supremacy at this point are these self-cannabilizing delusional white supremacists.

 

[Trips]

Indentured Servitude was the play and these cacs gonna end up like the Irish sharecroppers in the 1800s....

that's what they voted for though

 

[Tair]

fakkit you go work in the fields

I used to work on a farm over the weekends while in college. It was good character building work tbh.

Look at the potential positives instead of focusing on the negatives.

 

[Mandarin Duck]

I used to work on a farm over the weekends while in college. It was good character building work tbh.

Look at the potential positives instead of focusing on the negatives.

To believe that the Trump administration will develop a plan to pay farm working American citizens a livable wage is wildly naive.

 

[Outlaw]

I used to work on a farm over the weekends while in college. It was good character building work tbh.

Look at the potential positives instead of focusing on the negatives.

If you’re black, you’re a c00n. Go work in the fields like a good cac bootlicker. I can assure you, Trump doesn’t think you’re working a “black” job right now

 

[Bumblebreh]

I love seeing Americans working hard, family.

 

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I know dudes risking life and limb working on oil rigs right now that'll drop all that shyt if they could get $40/hr with full bennies and all they gotta do is pick plums. Folks working in Amazon Warehouse for $20/hr but they're not about to double up working on a farm. Folks driving for Amazon for $22/hr pissing in bottles in their truck because they're too pressed for time to stop and get a bathroom break but won't go pick some plums for $40/hr. Folks go put their life on the line joining the military for minimum wage and subsidized housing but won't take 40/hr to pick plums. The dumbest corporate shill talking points in the world being spewed ITT