“We are in dire need of workers, so there is a lot of fear from across the state … that this new law will actually be devastating."

  • Phat_Albert
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    1 year ago

    Being forced to pay competitive wages would be a major benefit to poor/uneducated workers and their families.

    I always love the line, “Americans won’t do X kind of labor.”

    Nope, not for $3/hr. Working in a field for $30/hr? I suspect there would be little difficulty hiring.

    • jray4559@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Definitely. Hell, maybe if food started to rot on the vine, we’d get a WWII-style sense of community back. Americans were (mostly) Americans first, political camps second when it was wartime. And saving our nation from (supposed) starvation I think would bring lots and lots together. Something this country damn well needs with how isolated we are as people.