> The employees in this scenario have all the leverage. But, they can only negotiate their wage up to a point where the farmer's livelihood is sacrificed
—save a tiny sliver that the farm owner is lucky to manage to get.
And this:
> Its not like farmers are making orders of magnitude more than the people they employ to help harvest
Consider the immense capital value required to have a farm of large enough scale to even halfway succeed in 2023. Some extremely poor decisions have been made if they're really not making a lot more than a migrant worker on their farm.
This is... fantasy-land topsy-turvy-world stuff.
You might have a point if the laborers were bargaining as a bloc, had captured ~all the available labor into that bloc, and had a substantial cash reserve for strike-pay. Short of that, this is all totally backwards.