Migrant farm workers are unskilled.

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Migrant farm workers are unskilled.

Lee — 4/2/2007 11:18:30 PM (archived)

If you have a job that anyone can do, then the value placed on the job is low. If the job requires skills that are rare, then the value is high. I can't sell you a bag of pea gravel for the same price as a bag of diamonds.

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Guerilla marketing - ER - 3/31/2007 8:55:00 PM
- I believe it is very common. - Bowser - 4/2/2007 2:39:10 PM
- Here's one: - Mary Anne - 4/1/2007 6:55:19 PM
  - re: Here's one: - ER - 4/1/2007 8:16:00 PM
    - "Quality just doesn't happen. You can't design it into a product up front" - Robert - 4/1/2007 11:26:45 PM
      - Light bulbs - TB - 4/2/2007 12:48:00 AM
        
        The notional toaster and the exploitation of the poor - Robert - 4/2/2007 2:30:26 AM
        
        Pop Tarts and my new toaster - TB - 4/2/2007 5:29:27 PM
        
        One more bit on notional toasters - TB - 4/2/2007 4:02:40 PM
        
        re: The notional toaster - TB - 4/2/2007 6:55:41 AM
        
        And just as an addition... - TB - 4/2/2007 7:02:54 AM
        
        re: And just as an addition... - ER - 4/2/2007 11:16:44 AM
        
        Consumer Reports - TB - 4/2/2007 3:50:20 PM
        
        Obviously you never read the links ;-) (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/2/2007 3:52:30 PM
        
        What links? - TB - 4/2/2007 4:08:18 PM
        
        re: What links? - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/2/2007 4:44:00 PM
        
        Make or break? - TB - 4/2/2007 5:22:56 PM
        
        re: Make or break? - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/2/2007 6:21:56 PM
        
        re: And just as an addition... - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/2/2007 2:36:28 PM
        
        Glad to hear you're back, Techmeister - ER - 4/2/2007 2:47:33 PM
        
        re: Glad to hear you're back, Techmeister - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/2/2007 3:19:39 PM
        
        re: The notional toaster and the exploitation of the poor - ER - 4/2/2007 3:19:20 AM
        
        re: The notional toaster and the exploitation of the poor - Robert - 4/2/2007 4:41:49 AM
        
        Kinda off topic, but - Lee - 4/2/2007 4:58:16 AM
        
        Not offtopic at all - Robert - 4/2/2007 3:47:05 PM
        
        Meade Instruments is a fine example. - Lee - 4/2/2007 5:14:43 PM
        
        "goodness" - TB - 4/2/2007 4:30:58 PM
        
        re: Not offtopic at all - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/2/2007 4:10:26 PM
        
        Grokking the dialectic again? - ER - 4/2/2007 5:16:02 PM
        
        A simple way to correct it - Lee - 4/2/2007 7:28:22 PM
        
        Another simple way to correct it - ER - 4/2/2007 7:43:55 PM
        
        Too bad the tax system has been twisted and perverted. - Lee - 4/2/2007 8:13:52 PM
        
        I disagree. - ER - 4/2/2007 9:03:24 PM
        
        The "System" is freedom. - Lee - 4/2/2007 9:44:52 PM
        
        "People are prosperous because they work hard, use their intelligence, or sometimes just get lucky" - ER - 4/2/2007 10:23:39 PM
        
        Migrant farm workers are unskilled. - Lee - 4/2/2007 11:18:30 PM
        
        re: Migrant farm workers are unskilled. - ER - 4/3/2007 1:13:15 AM
        
        What do you expect? - Lee - 4/3/2007 3:21:13 AM
        
        Control the borders - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/3/2007 1:34:53 AM
        
        I'm in favor of sealing the border to illegals. - ER - 4/3/2007 1:53:02 AM
        
        re: I disagree. - TB - 4/2/2007 9:29:42 PM
        
        Then I'm for it. (n/t) - ER - 4/2/2007 10:24:21 PM
        
        Never happen, though. - TB - 4/2/2007 10:58:22 PM
        
        Unfortunately, I believe you're right. (n/t) - ER - 4/2/2007 11:02:25 PM
        
        Not off topic at all - ER - 4/2/2007 12:56:51 PM
      - As one entrepreneur/engineer friend of mine put it... - ER - 4/2/2007 12:47:36 AM
        
        Design problems factoring in cost. - Bowser - 4/2/2007 2:49:42 PM
        
        Strictly anecodotal, but... - ER - 4/2/2007 3:11:15 PM
        
        re: Strictly anecodotal, but... - Laurie Street - 4/2/2007 4:56:57 PM
        
        re: As one entrepreneur/engineer friend of mine put it... - ER - 4/2/2007 12:59:10 AM
        
        re: As one entrepreneur/engineer friend of mine put it... - Yeti - 4/2/2007 2:05:03 AM
        
        Good analysis. Better than mine. - TB - 4/2/2007 12:52:14 AM
        
        You really need to read some Marx, TB. - ER - 4/2/2007 2:45:00 AM

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