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my local farmers use immigrant workers on starvation wages to harvest their crops. is that what you mean by supporting the local economy?
I live in farm country, and pay for farm labor is usually very fair. It's seasonal work in remote locations, but the pay isn't bad at all. Also most the migrant farm laborers only stay for the season, that is if it isn't too hostile for them to try working the season in the first place.
Your personal experience where you live is not how it is everywhere and is not everyones experience.
Indeed. But 'starvation' wages aren't typical in migrant farm work.
“Starvation” wages is a term that gets thrown around as hyperbole. I guess “undervalued for the amount of labour put in at a brutal level compared to the local average” would be more appropriate, but doesn’t roll off the tongue quite as well.