Immigration and Free Market Morality: A Christian Perspective
James Edwards Wednesday, 16 February 2011
There is a scene in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath where the farmer the Okies work for comes out to talk. He says you've been working for me for 30 cents a day, and you've given a good day's work for that 30 cents daily wage. He then tells them the new wage will be 25 cents a day. They're told the reason for the pay cut: the banker at the Farmers Association meeting told the farmer that's what the wage would be if the farmer expected to get his loan the next year. It's a heart-wrenching scene. And it is clear what would happen if they were to quit. Somebody else would come along the next day and they'd gladly accept the job at the new, lower wage.
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