Redditsux@lemmy.world to Leopards Ate My Face@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago'The whole thing is screwed up': Farmers in deep-red Pennsylvania struggle to find workerswww.politico.comexternal-linkmessage-square68fedilinkarrow-up1392arrow-down12cross-posted to: politics@lemmy.world
arrow-up1390arrow-down1external-link'The whole thing is screwed up': Farmers in deep-red Pennsylvania struggle to find workerswww.politico.comRedditsux@lemmy.world to Leopards Ate My Face@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square68fedilinkcross-posted to: politics@lemmy.world
minus-squareTechAnon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoInteresting background on the word. Thanks for sharing…I don’t think that’s it, because wouldn’t they be for hard working people then? Like the people doing the actual hard labor on the farms?
minus-squaregandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 months agoyou could also read it as “slave-holding people”, i.e. “con-serva-tive” with-slave-ish (slaveholders) being in favor of the existence of hard-working people doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re gonna treat these hard-working people well
Interesting background on the word. Thanks for sharing…I don’t think that’s it, because wouldn’t they be for hard working people then? Like the people doing the actual hard labor on the farms?
you could also read it as “slave-holding people”, i.e. “con-serva-tive” with-slave-ish (slaveholders)
being in favor of the existence of hard-working people doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re gonna treat these hard-working people well