[quote=flu][quote=no_such_reality]Silly, labor is a small part of the supermarket cost of food.

What’s really driving increases? Consolidation of the intermediaries and major players. i.e. Bayer & Monsanto merging.

Of course, raise prices enough and the average American might actually end up spending more on fresh fruits & vegetables than booze. Today, the average is more is spent on booze than fruits & veggies.
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There’s that too. And there’s cost of paying the CEO and the labor unions…. But someone needs to pick the fruit.. Just saying…
Anyway, folks on fixed income who previously said that companies should pay higher wages…Well, you got and will get what you wanted… (Not saying it’s a bad thing for those farm workers)..But for some of you on fixed income, well that remains to be determined..Lol…[/quote]

I agree someone has to pick the food. And just like software engineers, when you can’t find them to hire, you raise your wages.

All the complaining about no workers, yet average wages are $12/hour… to work in a field when it’s 102F, in blazing sun doing hard physical labor that would just about kill the typical suburban office worker that thinks they’re in shape.

This isn’t meant as an insult, I don’t think any of us semi-urban workers have delusions that we could play in the NFL, NBA or MLB although many of us all have the basic skills to “get the job done”.

Today’s farm field work, is the same way. You may have the basic understanding of the skill and capability, but you really don’t have the physical skill and conditioning to survive in the field without being carried by your coworkers for the first month or more. IMHO. Yet as a society we down rationalize paying them because “anybody” can do it.