cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/35845659

For 20 years, Tim O’Harrow has asked lawmakers to acknowledge that America’s food supply depends on immigrants. Politics went in the other direction.

  • greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo
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    16 days ago

    Then he switched to Mexicans.

    And he did that because they were cheaper than an automated dairy shed.

    • Hanrahan@slrpnk.net
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      15 days ago

      all the ones around me here in Australia are automated.

      high wages are a hood thing, they make innovation for drudgery. The corollary is, how to spread the productivity gains? here in Australia it seems to be by having more and more “Bullshit Jobs” rather than something like a UBI.

      • Teppa@lemmy.world
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        6 days ago

        It lowers interest rates, which raises money supply, so those people can attain more money as more money is available.