So that’ll include some farmworkers rights right? Right?
Nah, it’ll be straight slavery.
Hey how about a business where we go to Africa and get farm workers from there who also power our boats? Oh we have engines now? So we just go get Africans then? And we could get Chinese people to build our railroad system! What a great idea! Maybe we could teach some of these people to speak English and have them take care of our kids? I feel like I’ve heard of this before and it didn’t go very well.
Will the farmers get to choose their workers? Perhaps compete with each other? In an auction?
Maybe the process is more like choosing a day laborer
It’s just a soft sell on Slavery Lite, all the oppression with only half the calories.
soft? lite?
just straight up slavery
Hey man, we aren’t slaves because we are responsible for our own housing and food without there being any guarentee of income!
Well slavery should entice a lot of them to stay. Good job trump
Hmm, tell you what: maybe the migrants could live in shacks near the farm, so they wouldn’t have the difficulties of finding a place to stay without papers. And the farmer could provide basic foodstuff for them. The migrants would save on commuting and groceries.
And then to solve their undocumentated status, maybe the farmers could own the migrants: if they’re somebody’s, then they have a legal status, right?
And then we could rename the farms plantations.
When the laws apply to people and not property, we can just start owning people as if they are property. It’s really quite simple, you just need to be evil to make it work.
And if all goes well, the despicable tech billionaires are working to create company towns in rural areas of red states! Once the fascists expand beyond this “out” group…
Whenever Repuglicants suggest anything, just speculate to the worst case scenario and there you’ll find their ultimate goal.
Their voters just have no fucking sense of how bad their leaders will make things ever!
Whoa now, careful there. With the cutting of renewable energy the next thing you know companies will be offering boons like onsite housing and increased pay in the form of something like Company Tokens that can be used for good the company kindly ships in.
Let’s set aside the horrific implications for a moment. And let’s ignore the part about deporting American citizens as a form of collective punishment.
Just reading this in the most charitable way possible, he’s saying that we could let businesses sponsor the migrant workers and in doing so allow them to stay. What a clever idea, why haven’t we tried that before? Oh wait, we have, they’re called work visas. Too bad half your party opposes them (while the other half wants to use them as a form of indentured servitude). Not that it even matters that much when you are deporting people who are here legally anyway.
Doesn’t matter what promises Trump makes (even if he had actually meant them), when ICE has an absurdly high quota to meet and free reign to deport people without due process, no paperwork will be able to keep immigrants safe. They will just continue to go for the easiest targets
The real dumb thing about this is these farms do not need sustained labor. They want temporary transient labor for specific bursts like picking crops. It’s been that way since the abolishment of slavery. And no citizen wants to be migratory labor yet, the bottom hasn’t quite dropped that far out of the economy. Cyberpunk nomad clans have yet to be a reality.
I see USA solving it’s problems with their ancient traditions and sensibilities. Slavery. I’d say I’m surprised, but uh…
If corporations can be people then people can be objects. It’s quite simple really.
I can own a corporation, so this would follow.
It worked quite well a few hundreds years ago, right? So why shouldn’t they try again?
