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Such a law would give competitive advantage to evil businessmen who will own these plantations. Imagine you run a sandwich shop and pay respectful salaries to y
by frongpik 6y ago
Such a law would give competitive advantage to evil businessmen who will own these plantations. Imagine you run a sandwich shop and pay respectful salaries to your employees. Then I open a shop across the street, but use slave labor, pay next to nothing and sell sandwiches twice cheaper.
- nostrademons 6y agoYour slave labor will all come work for my sandwich shop, because I give them better wages. Or if there's more good labor than can work for my sandwich shop, some will open their own sandwich shops, which will treat their employees worse than me but better than you, and you will go out of business. What stops this from happening is usually land-use restrictions and regulation - if your employees can't rent storefronts, then they can't compete with you. When those have been relaxed, this is in fact what happens: all the folks dissatisfied with working for you start food trucks and you get a vibrant foodie scene.
- frongpik 6y agoWell, my employees are on special non-transferable visas and they can't just change jobs. In fact, it only takes me a call to department of labor to get any of them deported.
- IG_Semmelweiss 6y agowho are these american citizens with non transferable visas ? Because foreign work visas are already restricting to a specific employer, and do not seem relevant to this conversation