"Fair wages" is unfair and out of proportion to the value they bring. In addition to the (outrageously high) minimum wages that most states have enacted, farmers are forced to pay American farm-workers crap like unemployment insurance, disability insurance, FICA/SS, and other taxes and benefits as local/state jurisdictions impose. That brings the cost of hiring an American worker to over $15/hour for farmers. Why should a farmer pay $15 to do work that a chimpanzee can do, which is what most of back-breaking farm work is?
I sure don't want to force our farmers to pay the outrageous "fair wages" that our laws have mandated.
“Why should a farmer pay $15 to do work that a chimpanzee can do”
Because without the person doing the work there wouldn’t be any income for the farmer and therefore nothing to pay to anybody?
The idea of people working 16 hours a day, sleeping in bunks and getting paid in animal crackers because “chimpanzees” could do their jobs. It doesn’t sound like America and it certainly doesn’t sound like capitalism, it’s more like what you’d expect to see in Cuba or North Korea.
I agree with you about the employment benefit stuff, pay people in cash and let them save or spend their own money on insurance if that’s what they wish. Makes more sense than the Government mandating all kinds of insurance be bought and then paying people less in wages to make up the difference.