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> 5. Stop all forms of immigration for 8 years How would this help rural America? Migrants are absolutely necessary in every form of agriculture save for the m
by KittenInABox 3y ago
> 5. Stop all forms of immigration for 8 years
How would this help rural America? Migrants are absolutely necessary in every form of agriculture save for the microplot artisinal stuff urbanites are known for.
- lettergram 3y agoThey simply aren’t necessary at all. It’s that illegal aliens (they aren’t migrants) can be used as slave labor, lest they’re deported. You can easily pay a US citizen $10/hr. They’d prefer $5/hr. The cost of the overall product is low margin, but not so low margin they can’t afford the extra few dollars per hour a head. I say that as someone who is vary familiar with the practice and have watched it make people very rich.
- LAC-Tech 3y agoI never understood this logic. If you removed the supply of an ever increasing labour pool, businesses would shrink to fit the amount of labour they had available to them.