Kicking oranges

Last night I watched CNN's The inside man, where the guy from "Supersize me" goes and does different jobs. Anyway, he was an orange picker and wanted to see why, if the unemployment rate is so high, why most American citizens don't take these jobs, and also to see who does do them. Apparently mostly undocumented workers do this, or workers with paperwork to come here from Mexico specifically to work and then go back. But most companies just hire local "documented" workers but what kind of documentation is a free for all, because the owner explained that if he were to question certain documentation he could be sued for discrimination etc.
Anyway, after seeing how difficult the job is, it occurred to me than on Chinese New Year, we just take these very oranges and kick them in the air and let them land on the ground like they are just garbage. Not sure if I want to do that anymore, (unless the orange is already bad I guess) but then what am I going to do eat them all? Just seems like a waste, and yet oranges are so cheap. But if those workers were paid more I guess they would be a lot more expensive. Then probably most of the owners would try to re-use each orange (which is probably bad luck but nowadays most of the businesses in Chinatown are just celebrating a tradition and don't believe in all the superstitions necessarily.) and then to imagine that the oranges are probably the cheapest thing given out on New Year anyway. I mean one orange isn't worth $10 and $10 is considered to be a low red envelope for Chinese New Year.
Well anyway, something to think about.