Re: Fakery in HK

On Apr 24, 10:00 am, "Jack Denver" <nunuv...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Maybe you would but there are some filthly tedious jobs where you would be
hard pressed to get native born Americans to do the work diligently day
after day for almost any price. There have been many stories of Americans
hired to pick crops, work in a poultry processing plant, etc. where they
quit after a day because we just aren't used to doing that level of manual
labor any more. That the hardest jobs also attract the lowest wages has
something to do with it but wage levels are not the full story. Recently as
a result of immigration crackdowns some crops in Cali. have been going
unpicked due to labor shortages. The farmers would have paid almost any wage
that would have netted them more than zero (not $200 but I bet they would
have paid $20) but there were no American takers at any price. You could pay
orange pickers $200/hr but are you willing to pay $5 for an orange?

I'd be surprised if the farmers were paying 20/hr. Fruit and veggie
picking in
CA is a pretty hard life. Low wages, and you have to follow the crops.
And
there is no real career advancement. I'm not too shocked that it's not
the
first choice for citizens looking for work.

-- Michael



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