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minus-squareyermaw@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·20 hours agoI bet native people would want to do those jobs, but the real stickler is they’ll want a livable wage to go along with it.
minus-squareinclementimmigrant@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·19 hours agoI wish I could find the article where they talked to a few farmers in Georgia where they did increase the wage but none of the Real American’s^TM came back because the work was too hard for their soft, soft Real American^TM hands. But here’s some other stories that I found: https://www.walb.com/story/15626967/hb-87-costing-georgia-big-bucks/ and the failed use of probationers: https://www.politico.com/story/2011/06/ga-immigrant-crackdown-backfires-057551
I bet native people would want to do those jobs, but the real stickler is they’ll want a livable wage to go along with it.
I wish I could find the article where they talked to a few farmers in Georgia where they did increase the wage but none of the Real American’s^TM came back because the work was too hard for their soft, soft Real American^TM hands.
But here’s some other stories that I found:
https://www.walb.com/story/15626967/hb-87-costing-georgia-big-bucks/
and the failed use of probationers:
https://www.politico.com/story/2011/06/ga-immigrant-crackdown-backfires-057551