In the old days before the machines took over many Americans picked their own cotton. I know a few personally. The neighbors and family all pitched in when it was time to gather the crop of whatever variety. It was labor intensive and often needed the help of anyone needing the work whether black, white, red, or brown. The concentration of commodities into the hands of a few powerful international companies like Conti and Conagra and ADM, Garnac etc meant they could control prices. Keeping prices artificially low meant more farm bankruptcies and the kids of many farms left for the big city to make a living making a void in available farm labor so outside help whether from the next farm over or the next county or state or country was necessary for survival. Had nothing to do with no wanting to do the work. This is a big time convenient excuse and a corruption of the facts and history. Then came on federal easy money to the farmers...which they dolled out like candy. Inflation and rising interest rates crushed them. Big time farm bankruptcies like we saw in the 80's. Remember Farm Aid with Willy Nelson? So the end result of this was that many farm families went bankrupt with the corporate farm companies emerging and buying up the land and really prospering especially with the help of the farm subsidy lobby in Washington. That lobby was never really about helping the small farmer. It is just another form of corporate welfare.... just as a bad as social welfare. IMO.
Costa Ricans rely on Nicaraguans to pick their coffee, west Germans on East Germans and east Europeans, etc etc etc. Such is the way it is and always will be. These globalist are brain dead lazy slobs who can hardly wipe their own butts.
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