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[–] 96 points 1 year ago (9 children)

You mean that the job isn't worth what you pay to do. They always pretend it isn't the money. But of course its the money. If I'm going to work my ass off I expect better pay. Those immigrants were working their ass off for minimum wage and the farmers knew they were exploiting them.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    Any pretty much any physical job comes with copious risks to your body and health, yet these types of employers typically don't pay for employee health plans nor do they pay enough for employees to comfortably afford their own. Why would anybody want to risk severing a finger, breaking a leg, getting bitten by a dangerous snake, a nail to the hand, etc if they don't have to, especially knowing they can't afford the treatment and it could lead to lifelong pain and disability?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    You think they're making minimum wage?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Probably not all of them. The ones I've had experience with were.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    They mean that the workers are probably making less than Minimum Wage. There are exceptions to minimum wage for agricultural work. Minimum wage would have been an improvement.

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  • I think those exceptions are made (, in principle,) to to let farm workers get paid per unit. They pack a crate, they get $3. They can probably pack 10 crates an hour if they work their asses off.

    But I'm sure it is exploited egregiously.

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