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Article #8607Re: Don't you just love America?
From: The Real Bev
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 03:27
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 03:27
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ssence wrote: > > >> True enough. HOWEVER, perhaps if there were not so many illegals > >> willing to do these types of jobs, employers would offer a higher > >> (more reasonable) pay for this type of work and the 'non illegals' > >> would be willing to do it. I could be wrong, but it is something > >> worth thinking about. > > > > Depends on the elasticity of the demand. Thompson seedless grapes > > aren't really very good, but when their standard price was roughly > > the same as bananas I'd buy them. When the workers started getting > > paid more the price went up to roughly the same as peaches. Decades > > went by before I bought grapes again, and then only rarely -- they > > still aren't very good. Some things just aren't worth more than they > > already cost. > > But YOUR wages would probably have increased in tandem, so you could still > afford those grapes. It wasn't a question of affording, it was a question of being willing to buy grapes at peach prices. If you don't care how much you pay for stuff of negligible value you're an idiot. As far as I'm concerned, grapes priced themselves out of my market. YMMV. It's worse now, at least at the ethnic produce stores where I shop. I can buy really excellent white or yellow peaches or nectarines for 69 cents a pound, but grapes are generally around a buck. -- Cheers, Bev ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ While you can't fool all the people all the time, you can fool enough of them most of the time to make the rest impotent.
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