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'The whole thing is screwed up': Farmers in deep-red Pennsylvania struggle to find workers
(www.politico.com)
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I don’t see that business model working out well either. I’d like to see our youth educated in hard work and being exposed to where our food actually comes from. But motivating teens is challenging. And if it were my child I would rather they experience nature in a way that doesn’t permanently damage their back. I don’t particularly want to see poor immigrants being exploited either. Maybe this whole strategy of destroying family owned farms, and selling them to Vance owned private equity firms could result in a more equitable way of farming in the end? But I know that’s extremely unlikely.
teens are more vested in getting into college, or other easier work. why work on a farm when even walmart, target pays more and less stress. even trades, for being physically brutal and will wreak havoc on the body is easier than farm work by slavemasters.
even with how bad career development from colleges, the expensiveness, low prospects. its still better than slavework on the farm.