[Dust in the Wind]

"...should raise the wage offer until someone does want to do it. Also, improve working conditions, etc. That is how the free market is supposed to work. Yes, our lettuce may cost more.

(One more time.) The disconect here is those who grow and get the lettuce picked do not set the price; the commodity market does.

[Persevero]

“The disconect here is those who grow and get the lettuce picked do not set the price; the commodity market does. “

Right, so if the growers can’t get a high enough price to pay the legal lettuce pickers, then they don’t get it to market, then the price shoots up, until at some point it reaches a place where they DO get a high enough price to make it worth their while to get their lettuce grown and picket.

The free market works if we get out of the way.