• archiotterpup@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s not like American citizens are lining up to do those jobs. Otherwise folks from the Rust Belt would have gotten new jobs already.

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      1 year ago

      That’s the real kicker, isn’t it? “They’re stealing our jobs”… but nobody else is willing to do said jobs.

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        1 year ago

        Correction: Nobody is willing to do said job for what they want to pay.

        I’ve worked in agriculture (doing maintenance) and tbh I’m not going to go work in a field in the sun all day for less than like, $25 an hour or something; it’s absolutely brutal work. I wish every American would go do it for a summer or two, it might make us appreciate that $.50 cucumber a little more.