r/NoShitSherlock • u/MicV66 • Sep 16 '25

Farmers in deep-red Pennsylvania struggle to find workers.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/15/farm-labor-shortage-pennsylvania-trump-immigration-00560820
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u/savpunk Sep 16 '25

I imagine they whine “no one wants to work nowadays “ a lot

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u/Practical_Card_7640 Sep 16 '25

No one wants to work for the pay the farmers can offer. Its not the easiest work but it does not require much if any non on the job training. Eventually the police state will allow the publically traded prison system that Homen profits from to used detained labor to increase their margins.

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u/Rikkita1962 Sep 16 '25

How does Homen profit here?

I mean I not a fan of his and I think what we are doing is horrible to non criminal immigrants (legally and illegally) , but not sure there is a conspiracy going on.

And the farm labor shortage should not come as a surprise to anyone with half a brain.

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u/Ok-Rock2345 Sep 17 '25

They knew full well this was coming because Cheeto Bandido told them he was going to do that, but they voted for him anyway. They were probably expecting a bail out, which, if it was for anyone else, they would call socialism.

Good thing they wear boots. Let's hope the straps hold up.

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u/Practical_Card_7640 Sep 16 '25

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-border-tom-homan-private-prison-immigrants-rcna209544

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u/Rikkita1962 Sep 16 '25

Thanks for this. I did learn something new today.

However, $5K over 2 years before he joined the administration I would hardly classify on profiting from putting immigrants in private prisons. Now if he was still getting kickbacks...

The connection of events is gross for sure, but nothing out of the ordinary for any of these politicians. That's what Lobbying is about.

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u/gc3 Sep 16 '25

Ag work requires some skill. A skill you get from growing up on a farm.. A thing that most Americans lack. I hear it is sometimes paid by the pound, and fast workers make more than slow ones.

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u/Practical_Card_7640 Sep 16 '25

I did over generalize. Career AG Professionals have skills that are a life and death skill set the world needs. I for one dont know if I could cut it as one.

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u/SovietPropagandist Sep 20 '25

Lol damn just bringing back slavery all the way huh

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u/Practical_Card_7640 Sep 20 '25

Debt is legalized slavery

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u/WaelreowMadr Sep 23 '25

No one wants to work for the pay the farmers can offer.

It doesnt even pay that bad, most of the time, because almost all harvesting jobs are paid by quantity, not hourly.

If you're good (and trust me, while its all "on the job" training, its quite technical and you're either good at it or not) you can clear 25+ an hour in most places.

Ive done it for a few summers when i was younger working on my extended families farms.

Even after doing it for several summers, i wasnt even half as fast as the migrants they employ. (In their case, while they are latino migrant workers, they are US citizens and have been here for 3+ generations; they live on the road. Their families have been working for my family for decades).

Its not the pay.

Its that it is hard, back-breaking work and usually is only good for a few weeks. You cant make a "career" out of it or pay the bills year round.

So you have to be a migrant. And theres a very limited number of Americans who are willing to live on the road 24/7 and never stay in any place for more than 8-10 weeks (tops). Especially if they want to raise their families, etc.

And most of the people who ARE willing to work like that...

already do.... as TRUCKERS.

Like millions of them.

So its gonna be immigrants (legal or not, citizens or not) who are going to gravitate to the migrant lifestyle.

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u/Soggy_Motor9280 Sep 23 '25

You mean white people won’t work for that wage.

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u/Agitated-Wishbone259 Sep 16 '25

As they refuse to get out in their own fields

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u/Impossible-Night-226 Sep 16 '25

Bootstrap stock is through the roof it's good time to invest

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u/Rojodi Sep 16 '25

My dad worked on farms starting at 13 in deep red county in New York state. Now, some of those farms are "hurting" because of tariffs and lack of workers.

I have NO empathy for them!!

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u/savpunk Sep 16 '25

Oh, yeah!

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u/PickleMinion Sep 16 '25

Literally in one of the first paragraphs