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   Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 22:53:51 JST Bread up, Bro
   "its your fault that we need illegals, so you can have your cheap food"
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 22:54:34 JST Bread up, Bro

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     also having americans pick it with semi-reasonable labor conditions will make it $3.5/lb
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     WhiteBoyRooster (whiteboyrooster@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 22:58:00 JST WhiteBoyRooster

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     I have long road hauler friends who are telling me the trucking industry is spouting the same line.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 23:00:02 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • WhiteBoyRooster
     @WhiteBoyRooster yeah. It's happening in all industries. With the remote stuff from covid, a whole lot of industries learned they could get cheaper talent.
     
     Lawyers used to be exempt, because people would pay for talent that knew local laws, but now with a NY SC full of black women, it doesn't matter anymore
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     Doc (d0c40r0@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 23:01:22 JST Doc

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     https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Washington/Publications/Historic_Data/berries/strwbry.pdf
     
     cost the 2022 equivalent of $1.50 per lb in 1960
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 23:02:13 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • Doc
     @d0c40r0 yeah. It's just that companies that manage multiple farms are always looking for ways to cut corners. In almost all fields labor is a major component of cost.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 23:03:18 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • WhiteBoyRooster
     @WhiteBoyRooster an example
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 23:04:06 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • WhiteBoyRooster
     @WhiteBoyRooster I've heard this is what was happening in canada, interesting if this is moving to the states
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     WhiteBoyRooster (whiteboyrooster@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 23:04:07 JST WhiteBoyRooster

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     Whats interesting to me about the trucking industry is I'm being told the diversity hires are primarily middle eastern/Paki Muslims.
     
     One guy told me all the new truckers that his company hired last year were at minimum muslim. He said it was like 9 new drivers.
     
     Sure seems like they're asking for trouble.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 23:04:34 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • mk
     @mk @WhiteBoyRooster pick your own cotton continues to win
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     mk (mk@noauthority.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 23:04:35 JST mk

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     @sickburnbro @WhiteBoyRooster

     so..people that argue with "cheap labor" also argued with "cheap labor" during slavery debates.

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     CrustyB (crustyb@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 23:06:16 JST CrustyB

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     Apparently this guy thought America just didn't exist when it was 98% White.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 23:06:16 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • CrustyB
     @CrustyB I think people that think this, think: "I would never want to do this, so people I am talking to wouldn't either"
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 23:08:19 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • CrustyB
     @CrustyB with modern farming equipment like a small tractor, running a small farm to feed your family is actually not horrendously hard.
     
     The only downside is: strawberries are seasonal. I can live with that.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 23:08:55 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • Wrath
     @Eiswald don't stop your enemy when they are in the middle of making a mistake
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     Wrath (eiswald@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 23:08:56 JST Wrath

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     @sickburnbro These 'people' really should stop using their real names on social media.
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     spiral_power (spiral_power@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 23:22:55 JST spiral_power

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     @sickburnbro @CrustyB community 'gardens' should be the way of the future. also community dairy cows.
     
     and for the offseason, the grandmas will have made plenty of strawberry jam
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 23:34:20 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • N.B. Forrest
     @LTGENforrest @WhiteBoyRooster wait WHAT
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     N.B. Forrest (ltgenforrest@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 23:34:24 JST N.B. Forrest

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     • WhiteBoyRooster
     @WhiteBoyRooster @sickburnbro had some show up at a local shop needing driveline repair. Team drivers that cut a shithole out in the sleeper floor. Got angry when refused service.