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The simple counter is to offer higher wages. We absolutely have the capital and tech to ensure people can make a decent living doing farm labor.

It would require less billionaires and less chatgpt wrappers with billion dollar valuations.

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This. Labor markets cut both ways but you have to actually follow the rules for it to work.

Wait till you find out how much legal workers who make clothes in America make.

Go move to South America if you think their workers have something we don't and will make your life so much better.

That’s a silly response. Why do you think workers are exploited? You say we need to play by the roles, but you’re going to balk at the cost of playing by those rules.

We have absolutely decided we're fine with it. We'd prefer a functioning domestic economy to cheap luxuries.

I found the most Planet Money episode on this eye-opening: https://www.npr.org/2025/07/11/1255526971/garment-workers-cl...

or they just go out of business and we import our non mechanized crops to developing countries. Farming isn't a high margin business and if it were as simple are rising wages and prices, you wouldn't see the farms going out of business.

There is a reason European farmers are deeply subsidized.

We have the capital and tech to ensure out entire population has living wages, and yet and increasing swath of them do not

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