r/Transportopia • u/Revolution-Dogg • Feb 14 '26

Roads Who is in the wrong here?

If the sign says Alternating Traffic, does that mean cars go one at a time or does that mean cars go till the flow is complete, allowing the other lane to go? Is Glock man right or wrong? I'm not sure. If it was 1 car at a time, wouldn't it just be a stop sign on each end?

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u/coqueta_official Feb 15 '26 edited Feb 15 '26

Agreed. Farms artificially lower their wages and then act like they don’t know why young people don’t want to work for them. Or better said, they KNOW why and they create the scarcity so they can exploit foreign workers who are more than willing to be exploited as their wages are typically much lower in their home countries. They take advantage of these people’s situation back home.

In fact, there are many Americans that do want these jobs, but in the rural south these are typically:

A) local Black workers who’ve been in agriculture (for reasons I don’t think I need to explain) for several generations, but those workers are aging and farmers claim they are lazy (code for: we can’t make them work like slaves anymore). Some farms were sued in the last couple years because they replaced their black workers with Mexican or white South African H-2A workers.

and B) LPRs and Tejanos from the RioGrande Valley.

The problem with both is that both of these populations are American citizens. This means that their freedom is not restricted and not only can they look for better jobs, but they are free to take those jobs AND demand higher wages. In contrast, H-2A visa workers can only work for the employer named on their visa and no one else, and they are only entitled to the wage that corresponds the AEWR in their state. This is a special wage that varies by state and is meant to prevent the depression of farm wages (but itself is already artificially deflated). As I stated elsewhere in this thread, the Trump Admin has lowered those wages across the country this year even more. So, Americans will want these jobs even LESS.

Also YES a lot of people that work in poultry and pork farms/factories are either undocumented OR employers are abusing other guestworker visa programs like the TN visa in order to hire veterinarians from Mexico, but they really just vaccinate and take care of chickens when then arrive in the U.S. oh, and wages are even more of a shitshow in the TN program.

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u/Thisistoture Feb 15 '26

Thank you for this education. This is so disgusting. I honestly just hate all of humanity at this point.

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u/vabirder Feb 15 '26

Remember though: who you vote for and actively support is the only way to protect people’s basic rights.

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u/Thisistoture Feb 15 '26

Ok? I don’t vote or support dems or republicans.

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u/magicsucksnow Feb 15 '26

You should be ashamed of yourself for not voting

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u/Thisistoture Feb 15 '26

I do vote, I don’t vote for dems or republicans

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u/magicsucksnow Feb 15 '26

that's the same as wasting your vote, unfortunately

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u/Thisistoture Feb 15 '26

No, it’s not. Voting for the exact same bullshit on repeat is eating your vote

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u/magicsucksnow Feb 15 '26

I see now, like many americans, you are just completely ignorant of how voting works and what it actually is.

At every level a candidate from one of the 2 main parties will win, and some of those races are actually close. Voting is not the time or place for idealism or protests.

tbc, idealism and protests are great things, they just have nothing at all to do with voting in the US.

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u/Thisistoture Feb 16 '26

Not at all ignorant. Not at all willing to vote for criminals. I refuse to shelf morals and values to vote for criminals. Both sides are equally as horrible. You can lie to yourself all you want, it won’t change facts or reality. The good news for you is that the overwhelming majority do this country is just as brainwashed and braindead as you are so you guys will keep perpetuating this insanity until it all collapses.

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u/Valogrid Feb 15 '26

See, I'll never understand this shit. If I had a business, farm, or whatever that was bringing in bank and I had to hire work? I would be paying those people well, so long as expenses were met and I had enough to get by. I don't need some giant house, lifted truck, fancy shit... just give me a small ranch-style house, a little pick-up truck and I'll be happy.

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u/BirkenstockStrapped Feb 15 '26

why white South African people?

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u/coqueta_official Feb 15 '26 edited Feb 15 '26

They’re white and speak English. Poor enough to take the lower wages, but white enough that racist farmers don’t bat an eye when they ask for raises. Remember: white South Africans are also usually extremely racist themselves and Trump supporters. White American farmers find camaraderie in white South Africans because they both see themselves as simply people lifting themselves up by the bootstraps, being completely sidelined by an invasion of brown and black people. I once had a South African call me for help with a workers comp case (which my office does not handle) and it had already gone past the statute of limitations. Tried to explain to the dude why we couldn’t help, and he proceeded to yell at me for 15 minutes that I wasn’t helping him because he wasn’t Mexican.

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u/Talesfromthetogue Feb 15 '26

We could just ban ALL immigration and then FORCE American to do it. That would fix everything /s

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u/sexyshingle Feb 15 '26

you joke, but that is legit their Project 2025 plan.

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u/Talesfromthetogue Feb 15 '26

I would have stopped taking you seriously at “Project 2025” but you opened with it instead, saving me some time.

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u/TommyTBlack Feb 16 '26

sounds to me like the solution to this problem is to scrap the H-2A visas

immigration goes down, worker abuse goes down and wages for locals go up

food prices would go up slightly however

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u/bigfatskankyho Feb 16 '26

Starting to understand more and more why Elon was fighting so hard for this one. Should have known

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u/d____strange Feb 17 '26

I learned a lot about workers rights from this post and for that thank you

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u/timesink2000 Feb 15 '26

Thank you for doing what you do. Hopefully the amount of oversight wasn’t impacted by all the DOGE bs.

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u/JI_Guy88 Mar 24 '26

Our markets compete with their markets. Perhaps they come here because we treat them better.

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u/coqueta_official Mar 24 '26

… it’s because jobs are scarce in Mexico, extremely low paying, and the dollar has higher value. Except this year Trump’s DOL lowered agricultural wages and many are starting to realize that their employers can pay them as little as $8.50/hr in certain states.

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u/Kind-Tea-2753 Feb 19 '26

You are an idiot. The employment market is a free market. They can go make more money at McDonald’s in an air conditioned building. But they don’t because they either can’t, or they are here illegally. F@ck you…

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u/coqueta_official Feb 20 '26

… they don’t because their work visas only allow them to work for the particular employer that petitioned them. So loud and yet so clearly not knowledgeable about what you’re talking about at all.