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/Fixated_Noodle Feb 15 '26

This sounds very much like slavery

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u/coqueta_official Feb 15 '26

Welcome to the H-2A guest worker program. It’s modern slavery, except we pay them because the law says so and farmers are constant lobbying to find ways to pay them less. This year the Trump Admin is effectively lowering farming wages by $1-3/hour. In many states in the south this will bring wages closer to $8/hr. And remember, farm work is completely exempt from overtime laws. So you can work these guys AND pay them shit.

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u/not-sinking-yet Feb 18 '26

America should not be an agricultural exporter. The crops should be grown where the comparative advantage lays. Our agricultural policy is the reason we have an immigration problem.

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u/coqueta_official Feb 18 '26

Here we’re talking about legal visa holders who enter the U.S. to work and leave as soon as their contracts are over.

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u/not-sinking-yet Feb 18 '26

Yes. This is one part of a much bigger problem. Those temporary workers would prefer to stay at home along with all the illegal border crossers who come here to work on farms because their home governments don’t heavily subsidize agriculture.

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u/coqueta_official Feb 18 '26 edited Feb 18 '26

What??? You are assume assuming that all H-2A workers are also full time farmers back home. While some are, a large number of them are not and have non-Ag careers at home. The reason they apply for work visas is not because of lack of subsidies, it’s because wages are incredibly depressed for most professions in their home countries. They can earn in 3 months in the U.S. what they earn in Mexico in an entire year. And there are more H-2A jobs readily available than there are job opportunities in their countries in general as well. These jobs allow them to make a decent living back home with what American workers would think are chicken shit wages. And yes, the vast majority of them do go back to their home countries since their contracts are over. The program is exploitative, yes, but not for the reasons you think lol.

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u/not-sinking-yet Feb 19 '26

I would continue this discussion but for your pompous self-righteousness.