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That's because they would never be able to afford basic things like:

- college education ($30K-$75K/year, preceded by purchasing a shack for $800K in a good-school town)

- health care ($25K/year for a high-deductible family plan)

What's the point?

Or do we consider education or healthcare luxury now?

America has long treated both education and healthcare as luxury items that only the rich deserve.

We need to fix those things. They are negatively impacting quite a lot of people. The lack of healthcare is hardly peculiar to farm labor jobs.

In the US school is free for 13 years. After that there are scholarships for the poor.

Healthcare is expensive, but there are programs for the poor.

When you move out of poor things get hard quick though because you don't get the above and so you have to come up with the prices you quote.