What does that have to do with it? $20.00/hr will attract enough local help around here. They don’t want local help. They don’t advertise for help and the Mexicans get trucked in every year.
It has to do with the fact that the man has years of experience running his business that you don't have. He has capital at risk that you don't have.
$20.00/hr will attract enough local help around here.
And what would the advertising costs be to attact them? And how much time would it take to assemble them? And once they were assembled, would they know what to do? Would they know what not to do? If they didn't know, how long would it take to train them? What would it cost to train them? Could you even get them all trained before the crop rotted in the field? If you trained 100 and 30 decided to quit, how long would it take to replicated the above process? How much would repeating this process cost?
He knows the answers to all these questions. You don't.