Perhaps the solution is stop bringing illegals so people are forced to sell strawberries for $5/lb and then wages can go up for the people picking strawberries?
Maybe if we kicked out all the illegals, then small farmers could charge working prices, because the food market wouldn't be artificially under-valued?
But if they pay illegals real wages then the prices of homes will go up because they make up the majority of construction and labor jobs, our importing of them is what keeps houses affordable for everyone!
Perhaps if we want more affordable housing we should have women stay home with their parents until they marry a man instead of sending women off to live on their own and nearly doubling housing demand?
Or maybe even have some limitations on massive corporations and literal foreign nations being able to buy up entire towns worth of land/houses they won't maintain to create artificially high prices!
Deporting the invaders will fix the ''housing crisis''.
Stop paying / student-debting young people to go into Gender Studies and fake tech jobs, and instead send more into construction, plumbing, electricity jobs. Those pay well anyway. Make some deal such as ''for every year 30h/week or more in the field, in the country, 20% of your school costs debt are forgiven'' ( so similar to a scholarship, but with some responsabilities ).
Stop denigrating manual labor as if ''only retards do this'', chasing away students who don't want to be labled ''retards''.
Non-profitable crops are usually discarded for profitable crops ( to the extent some small countries had food shortages problems because it was more profitable to grow non-edible crops for exports, or drugs ).
Strawberries year-round in grocery stores aren't worth demographic suicide anyway.
Normies, left right and center, are all programmed to respond with "But Americans won't do those jobs", and then cite some bullshit study they heard about which may or may not have some veracity to it. Frankly I don't even care if their study is correct and Americans are actively refusing those jobs. The thing is that if the wage for picking strawberries was high enough you'd have Americans fighting each other for the opportunity. Imagine if picking strawberries paid enough that a single year's wages was enough to outright purchase a good house in a high cost of living area, on par with lawyer or celebrity levels of purchasing power. You bet your ass Americans would do that job.
If an entire domestic industry relies on slave wages in order to function then it deserves to collapse.
Grr. No one was refusing any of those jobs. But welfare sure as fuck doesn't help hook you up with them.
Want a farm job, Mr or Ms White Canadian? Find it yourself, better have a car and be willing to commute. No bunk houses any more. And oh,, you need some ag courses. And understand Spanish.
Want a farm job It-Thing Immigrant? Here, we'll have a van to shuttle you, and places for you to live. You don't even have to speak of lick of English, and a Jethro level education is fine, just fine. Tickets? Ah, we can fake that for you.
And your conclusion is exactly the right conclusion. It's the inverse of what leftists say though. Leftists think if a person's wage isn't enough to live on, their wage should be higher. In reality, if a person's wage isn't enough to live on we should be questioning if that person should even be living then.
As it pertains to people born and raised here, it might be a difficult moral question but if these people in question that can't live on the wage are immigrants it becomes a much easier answer. Stop accepting immigrants into the country.
Perhaps the solution is stop bringing illegals so people are forced to sell strawberries for $5/lb and then wages can go up for the people picking strawberries?
Maybe if we kicked out all the illegals, then small farmers could charge working prices, because the food market wouldn't be artificially under-valued?
But if they pay illegals real wages then the prices of homes will go up because they make up the majority of construction and labor jobs, our importing of them is what keeps houses affordable for everyone!
Perhaps if we want more affordable housing we should have women stay home with their parents until they marry a man instead of sending women off to live on their own and nearly doubling housing demand?
Or maybe even have some limitations on massive corporations and literal foreign nations being able to buy up entire towns worth of land/houses they won't maintain to create artificially high prices!
Get rid of foreign students. Then their daddies won't buy them houses while they study.
Deporting the invaders will fix the ''housing crisis''.
Stop paying / student-debting young people to go into Gender Studies and fake tech jobs, and instead send more into construction, plumbing, electricity jobs. Those pay well anyway. Make some deal such as ''for every year 30h/week or more in the field, in the country, 20% of your school costs debt are forgiven'' ( so similar to a scholarship, but with some responsabilities ).
Stop denigrating manual labor as if ''only retards do this'', chasing away students who don't want to be labled ''retards''.
There you go, problem solved.
illegals do shit dry wall work.
Well, dry wall is shit anyway. I'll never understand American houses where you can punch a hole through the cardpaper wall.
It's either that or go back to lath and plaster.
and it will encourage THE MARKET to think of better ways to grow and harvest strawberries.
Non-profitable crops are usually discarded for profitable crops ( to the extent some small countries had food shortages problems because it was more profitable to grow non-edible crops for exports, or drugs ).
Strawberries year-round in grocery stores aren't worth demographic suicide anyway.
Normies, left right and center, are all programmed to respond with "But Americans won't do those jobs", and then cite some bullshit study they heard about which may or may not have some veracity to it. Frankly I don't even care if their study is correct and Americans are actively refusing those jobs. The thing is that if the wage for picking strawberries was high enough you'd have Americans fighting each other for the opportunity. Imagine if picking strawberries paid enough that a single year's wages was enough to outright purchase a good house in a high cost of living area, on par with lawyer or celebrity levels of purchasing power. You bet your ass Americans would do that job.
If an entire domestic industry relies on slave wages in order to function then it deserves to collapse.
Grr. No one was refusing any of those jobs. But welfare sure as fuck doesn't help hook you up with them.
Want a farm job, Mr or Ms White Canadian? Find it yourself, better have a car and be willing to commute. No bunk houses any more. And oh,, you need some ag courses. And understand Spanish.
Want a farm job It-Thing Immigrant? Here, we'll have a van to shuttle you, and places for you to live. You don't even have to speak of lick of English, and a Jethro level education is fine, just fine. Tickets? Ah, we can fake that for you.
Fuck those fucking liars.
And your conclusion is exactly the right conclusion. It's the inverse of what leftists say though. Leftists think if a person's wage isn't enough to live on, their wage should be higher. In reality, if a person's wage isn't enough to live on we should be questioning if that person should even be living then.
As it pertains to people born and raised here, it might be a difficult moral question but if these people in question that can't live on the wage are immigrants it becomes a much easier answer. Stop accepting immigrants into the country.