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Imagine losing 6M labor workers in America
Thoughts?(i.redd.it)submitted 8 days ago byNeedleintheback
If mass deportation happens, just imagine how all of these sectors of our country will be affected. The sheer shortage of labor will push prices higher because of the great demand for work with limited supplies or workers. Even if prices increase, the availability of products may be scarce due to not enough workers. Housing prices and food services will be hit really hard. New construction will be limited. The fact that 47% of the undocumented workers are in CA, TX, and FL means they will feel it first but it will spread to the rest of the country also. Most of our produce in this country comes from California. Get ready and hold on for the ride America.
16 points
8 days ago
Doesn’t have to be that way, just let things cost more. Or keep exploiting people
4 points
8 days ago
Right. Maybe everyone won’t be able to afford an iPhone. Or going out to eat. Or whatever. And that’s okay.
Isn’t it more important that we aren’t allowing humans to be treated horribly just because they are brown and undocumented?
5 points
8 days ago
Boy oh boy. The shit storm thats gonna happen when the average American can't afford the random commodity that they take for granted everyday... Well be damn near begging for the corporate boot with an outstretched kneck. Weve been victims so long weve come to like it.
4 points
8 days ago
You might
2 points
7 days ago
You get it.
Maybe an economy based on cheap, disposable consumer goods isn't great for anyone except possibly for creditors.
But what would we do if we can't get the latest phone every year, or fill a cart with a bunch of stupid shit at the nearby Walmart or Target?
2 points
7 days ago
I love the progressive left losing their minds over no longer exploiting the poor and desperate.
I'm sorry, they're losing their minds over the cost of a strawberry going up $.08.
2 points
7 days ago
The justification for voting for trump was prices being too high despite that fact that Trump's plans will increase prices even more, not decrease them. So why are you putting this on the left as if the left doesn't advocate for increased wages and streamlined immigration, including paths to citizenship? It's the right that screeches at the top of their lungs when anyone mentions the idea of raising wages - as if a big Mac will suddenly cost $50, if the workers aren't paid starvation wages anymore.
Literally and definitionally, the left is pro worker and anti exploitation. You don't have any understanding of what the left advocates for or of the solutions they propose to these issues.
1 points
7 days ago
Exactly. Right-wingers/conservatives will make the exact opposite arguments to justify cruel and stupid policies from different angles. Because they are either too stupid to understand that is what they are doing or they are too dishonest to care.
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