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It's funny how everybody (in the first world) just takes for granted the fact that a large part of the agricultural workforce is low-paid migrant workers. All o
by ciconia 7y ago
It's funny how everybody (in the first world) just takes for granted the fact that a large part of the agricultural workforce is low-paid migrant workers. All of us want our food to be available all year round, and cheap. It's been my opinion for a while that food prices do not represent the real cost of food production when taking into account all the externalities. Low-wage labor is just one of those externalities.
- dredmorbius 7y agoModern market economics is a ... marvel ... of numerous uncosted externalities. Pollution, labour, externalised risk, unaccounted systemic risks, natural resource depletion and formation costs, political power, corruption...
- Guthur 7y agoAnd communism is a marvel of suffering and deprivation. Which would you prefer?
- hyperbovine 7y agoThat's a false dichotomy you're holding up.
- JadeNB 7y agoTrying to silence complaints about the evils of capitalism with aspersions on the evils of communism does no good to anyone.