Reply #19: $12.50 an hour? Yeah, right.

[JoeyT]

No farm pays 12.50 an hour. A lot of mills down here don't start you out at $12.50 an hour, and people would sacrifice family members for a shot at those jobs. Most farms use production pay based on how much you pick. So yeah, I guess if you could pick six million peaches an hour you'd make $12.50.

This is more "Poor people deserve to be poor because they're lazy and don't want to work!" bullshit.

Rich farmers are going to lose money because they want to fuck their employees. If they were actually willing to pay $12.50 an hour they wouldn't be able to beat the potential employees off with a stick. Look how many people applied for McJobs that pay considerably less than that. (And are less pleasant, imo.)