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I don’t understand how this relates to not paying people a living wage for full time work?

$30/hr isn't a living wage? Jobs like this are precisely the high-paying hard-labor stuff that is going by the wayside in the name of equity. The exact type of job I used to pull myself out of my situation and bootstrap my tech career.

Try walking onto a roofing crew these days and see how that goes. Jobs like this simply are almost nonexistent now for most demographics.

> $30/hr isn't a living wage?

Income is relative. Mentioning it without mentioning its measure against what it's used for makes it nearly meaningless. If you're going to do that, you might as well not even mention units like dollars and hours.

$30/hour for the most skilled workers, for a few weeks during harvest, where you have to live on the farm 24/7, and then travel somewhere else because this job is done. That’s not roofing. Not even in the same ballpark as roofing.

It's not full-time work. It's seasonal work.

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