I gotta say it is extremely wild watching the Free Market Defense Crew stumble over the extremely basic concept that if you cannot attract workers with the wages you're offering then the problem is that you aren't offering enough incentive, i.e. wages, to do the job you want done https://twitter.com/j_diddle/status/1316249314537086977

"People don't want to pick fruit these days!" yeah no shit, fruit picking is hard, shitty work and it's typically done by underpaid migrant laborers who generally lack better options, it's not exactly a huge surprise that people with a choice of jobs tend to not want to do it

"But if we close the border to migrants then our crops will rot because we can't entice people to work for us without the implicit threat of imminent starvation and/or deportation" hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ah yes, the problem is nobody values hard labor these days

I'm reminded of the time the US government tried to run a patriotic program to get college students to pick crops and it failed miserably https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/07/31/634442195/when-the-u-s-government-tried-to-replace-migrant-farmworkers-with-high-schoolers