[Toddsterpatriot]

How come? Assuming that the number of lettuce heads cut per member of a team is 200 (which is not very high - team total 600 including one packer and two cutters) $10 per hour equals five cents per lettuce head.

If only labor were the only expense.I guess you didn't notice the expensive California land those cutters were walking on? Or the equipment need to plant, water and fertilize the lettuce. Or the equipment needed to refrigerate, store and ship it to say my local vegetable stand in Chicago. Unless you think these other things should be free, comrade?

[A. Pole]

If only labor were the only expense.I guess you didn't notice the expensive California land those cutters were walking on? [...]

I did not say that the lettuce head would COST five cents. I said that "if the lettuce cutters were paid $10 more per hour, the lettuce head in store would cost five cents more"

But you seem to claim that this raise in pay would raise cost of land, equipment, water, fertilizer, storing and shipment. Maybe I am dense, but I do not get it. For me $10 divided by 200 gives 5 cents. Please explain!

[hedgetrimmer]

I guess you didn't notice the expensive California land those cutters were walking on? Or the equipment need to plant, water and fertilize the lettuce. Or the equipment needed to refrigerate, store and ship it to say my local vegetable stand in Chicago.

Wow, just think, the sugar beet farmers you regularly demean have the same expenses! Who'd of thought it! But if the WTO says they must be eliminated, because Brazil and the Domincan Republic want that market, and Toddsterpatriot will stand by his fellow "free traders" and join in struggle against the evil "sugar barons" of North Dakota!