• octopus_ink@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    While this is awful, imagine for a moment how fucked it is that our agricultural market is so depressed that it can only function if we pay “illegal” immigrants such a low wage that no one else would accept it, to the point that when that supply dries up, we can’t possibly solve the problem except with legalized slavery.

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      4 months ago

      Oh, they can function while paying legal workers the legal minimum wage. They just don’t want to, as they make more money doing things like the above.

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      4 months ago

      They can function with legal laborers, they deliberately choose not to because they can rely on a permanently endangered domestic underclass that they can super-exploit for supet-profits.

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      4 months ago

      Right? When “make line go up” is the only thing that matters, this is ultimately where things will lead