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"Welcome to Sakuma Estates, a planned community with homes starting in the $270s"

That's what the advertisements will say when farmers get tired of this SJW nonsense of $15 per hour and sick leave for casual, unskilled, seasonal labor. (For the record, I wouldn't want to pick strawberries. I picked cherries and apples for 11 weeks of a hot summer, and it sucks.) But these migrant workers are going to be replaced (easily) by automation, or the relative value of land gets so high that they'll turn it over to development, or sell out to a corporate fruit co., like Dole.

Be careful what you wish for Lefties. Your eagerness to score political points in a world run by economics, may send thousands of Mexicans home to family deprivation and no hope, when $15 an hour doesn't pencil out here.

Oh, and increasing produce costs 25% will reduce the amount of veg. people eat (with health costs), and leaving less for rent (making it more expensive for households on the margins), and reduce the disposable income available, costing bartenders and servers their jobs. Economics is a bitch that way.

Migrant farm workers are doing the work Americans are unwilling to do. If we're going to argue $15 an hour, let's put farm work on the requirements after 26 weeks of unemployment benefit.
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Thanks for reporting this. Since the article doesn't clarify how much more per day this gives Sakuma workers, or how close it brings them to a $15/hour minimum wage, I guess I'll have to keep boycotting Sakuma produce. Please let readers know if this remains the best course of action.
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@2: Updated the post to try to answer your question.
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"The average worker is making $16 per hour."

Ansel wants them to negotiate to $15 per hour guaranteed –

...which will demotivate the men & women now earning $19 per hour, and raise the wages of the people who are happy to cruise along...

Welcome to some bullshit Lefty economics.
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Why does reading about economics make people so darn smug? Smugger than anything.

I think it's because it includes some closed axiomatic systems that also imply conclusions about the realm world , so people get to talk without needing empirical justification.
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