• Iceblade@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      13 hours 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.

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

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        24 hours ago

        I don’t think I’ve ever heard a Trump promise that was actually achievable.

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