Shortage of cheap labor in California

[HighStickHarry]

Stupid California laws and spoiled beta children make for no one wanting to pick apples for 22$/hour.

This would be perfect for people about a month into rehab. All that energy and appetite, go do three months in the fields. Lots of school busses not running right now. Maybe these farmers could make a swing through the top unemployed cities in America and offer some jobs.

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2017/05/24/california-farmworker-shortage/

 

[windriverrange]

Prisons are full of people that should do this....use 1/2 the $22 per hour for restitution. Drone'em if they run.

 

[CBradSmith]

Stupid California laws and spoiled beta children make for no one wanting to pick apples for 22$/hour.

Can they pay $25/hr?
28?
30?
Can it be automated?

 

[07pilt]

@Ponca Dan what is the free market solution to a labor shortage?

 

[MegaPoke]

@Ponca Dan what is the free market solution to a labor shortage?

Indentured servitude as a path to citizenship.

 

[imprimis]

@Ponca Dan what is the free market solution to a labor shortage?

You're able bodied and receive government assistance, you have to work either in a job you find or one chosen for you.

 

[07pilt]

You're able bodied and receive government assistance, you have to work either in a job you find or one chosen for you.

Jobs Guarantee?

 

[07pilt]

This is a lot of dancing around the obvious answer of "pay more".

 

[imprimis]

Jobs Guarantee?

Yes. Zuckerberg should hire thousands of them since he wants a guaranteed income for all. Of course, he wants the government to pay---not him.

 

[MegaPoke]

This is a lot of dancing around the obvious answer of "pay more".

For what?

 

[Ponca Dan]

@Ponca Dan what is the free market solution to a labor shortage?

Raise the pay scale to attract more workers. Everything - EVERYTHING - including laborers, are subject to supply and demand. Of course if we're talking pie-in-the-sky, as an anarchist that doesn't believe in borders, it would be easy to attract workers that would love to do the work. But that's pie-in-the-sky thinking. It is much more sensible to force prisoners or others to do your bidding.

 

[CBradSmith]

This is a lot of dancing around the obvious answer of "pay more".

Can they pay $25/hr?
28?
30?
Can it be automated?

 

[NipponPoke]

Not bad. That's more than the average starting teacher's salary in California. Almost makes that $1,500 a month, one bedroom apartment in San Diego doable.