alt Hacker NewsLet us hope this results in farms offering Americans better wages for working on farms. Only 1% of the retail cost of produce is due to labour. Farms could double wages to workers and it would barely move the needle on inflation.
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fakedang • today at 1:03 PM
Farmers don't see your retail cost in their gains either. That's captured by huge middlemen corporations.
Unless of course the farmers are themselves working for a huge vertically-integrated corpo.
I agree, but the farmers aren't pulling in massive amounts of cash either. There are record profits being siphoned from the wages of the workers, and from the profits of the farmers, and from the pockets of the consumer at the register. We'd all be better off if we tracked the money down and took it back.