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Cosmocat

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8. "slave labor" for farms is delusional at this point

Reply to Hekate (Original post)

Mon Oct 13, 2025, 08:20 AM

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by and large.

There are some things that you grow that still are labor intensive, but the major items like wheat and corn are going to harvested much more efficiently with machinery than with people.

End of the day, what they want is what they have had for many years now.

To be kept afloat by "socialism" with the various farm subsidies and in the case of those crops that do require a lot of human labor to be able to use migrant workers whether they are legal or not, and be able to virulently and self righteously support the party that takes all other forms of public assistance away from people and beats down all the migrants that they don't need.

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