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The U.S. government said Monday it is immediately placing a 17% duty on most fresh Mexican tomatoes after negotiations ended without an agreement to avert the tariff.

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[–] Mbourgon@lemmy.world 86 points 2 days ago (3 children)

And who will be working those farms? But I’m sure somebody in the administration figured a way to short a stock involving it, somehow

[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Jesus Christ this is the absolute dumbest time line....ice... ice did this

[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 36 points 2 days ago (2 children)

No, Trump did this. ICE is his tool to do this, but make no mistake, Trump is to blame.

[–] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

America is to blame. Trump is simply a symptom of America's collective sickness.

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

The U.S. has been manipulated into this hellhole situation just like those raped thirteen year old girls - promises of nice things and candy.

[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Well yes and his little impotent chudd Miller

[–] seralth@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My old highschool now has the option for kids to opt out of PE instead you hop on the school bus and your 4 hour block is instead done on a local farm helping out.

So children mostly I would assume.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Its not a bad thing to allow highschool kids to experience real working conditions. Americans also need to see for themselves that working on a farm isn't the horrible torture everyone acts like it is.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The work isn’t the horrible torture, it’s the non-livable wages.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Then the question is how do we get livable wages to whoever is working on farms.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

I can think of one way

[–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nitpick: this would be shorting a future, not a stock.

Futures are typically “physical” goods like oil, bananas, cheese, maple syrup, etc. there are also other types of futures.

These commodities futures were originally created in the 1600s in Japan for rice, but they got their mass appeal in Chicago in the late 1800s.

The trading floors in Chicago are pretty cool and have a ton of interesting history.

[–] match@pawb.social 3 points 1 day ago

what's it called when you're shorting your children's futures

[–] Mbourgon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Thanks for the clarification. I figured there was something you could bet against, but forgot about futures. Appreciate it!