re: #84 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch

And in the meantime, crops will rot in the fields because the work is too hard and pays too little for real ‘Muricans and people will bitch about the price of food going up.

A couple years ago when Alabama passed its version of Arizona’s “papers please” law, tomato farmers wound up plowing under their crops, because even offering $50 an hour they could not get people into the fields to pick tomatoes.

It turns out if you have a regular job somewhere, you’re not going to quit it for a three-week season in the fields, even at $50. Migrant farm workers are migrants precisely because they travel across the country for different harvest seasons. You can’t have an office job or something and also be a farm worker. Capitalism doesn’t work that way.