Jayjader@jlai.lutoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•Please stop the bus of life, I want to get offEnglish
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10 days agoCall me naive, but it seems to me that if everyone was pitching in for a season of farm work, less people overall would be doing 8/15/etc consecutive years and getting their bodies destroyed.
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And what one dude who went through the program as a 17 year old has to say about it now:
My reading is that it failed because there was no political will to actually provide for local-born farmers any more than immigrants. And as such, it was doomed to fail from the start.