• Iceblade
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    2520 days ago

    So the farmers will have to pay their workers a liveable wage?

    How terrible

    Labor scarcity drives innovation & increases standards of living by driving up the value that workers can demand in exchange for their time. It’s simple economics.

    • @[email protected]
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      820 days ago

      If they did, the prices for groceries would skyrocket and make Trumps “promise” to bring the prices down completely impossible to achieve.

      • @[email protected]
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        320 days ago

        I bet he plans to use prison labor. And to make new laws aimed at incarcerating minorities and the poor.

    • @[email protected]
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      219 days ago

      I don’t think it’ll be a free market, unfortunately. They’ll create a sub class of citizens from immigrants wanting the work and it’ll be cheaper than ever.