• Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    You’d destroy multiple industries that result on exploiting illegal migrants, and low cost labor from those with green cards. Hospitality, sanitation, meat packing, construction, agriculture, etc all would come up floaters

    The whiplash from average Americans would be incredible. We’ve priced in domestic exploitation into several industries, and US consumers have come to demand it, and more.

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      9 months ago

      so what I’m hearing is that America doesn’t run on Dunkin’, it runs on exploitation

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      It’s a good point, but at the same time this isn’t indefinitely sustainable. Something has to give here. It’s morally reprehensible that we exploit the desperate and vulnerable for cheap labor. It’s economically dangerous that so many of our domestic industries are reliant on an illegal sub-minimum wage workforce. Both situations are breeding grounds for worse abuses like human trafficking and embezzlement.

      I don’t have a solution to this problem, but kicking the can down the road isn’t a solution and doesn’t seem like a healthy choice.

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        If we shut these down domestically the product will just get imported. Do you think other countries aren’t exploiting their workers

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      9 months ago

      See the problem is that I like cheap produce. The companies can afford to sell cheap produce and pay better though they won’t. So they abuse this type of labor.

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        The problem isn’t that you like cheap produce.

        The problem is that corporations profit off of the exploitation. Your price could remain the same if the company was willing to accept less profit.

        They would still be rich. Just not as rich.

        And that’s a problem with almost every company in existence.

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            That kind of system existed in post-WWII USA, when a high school graduate could work full time to afford a house while being the single income for a big family.

            We called it ‘taxes’.

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              Taxes were never meant to be profit caps and they clearly aren’t an effective way to stop the ruling class. They’re what the ruling class used to use to break people; nowadays they just don’t give people enough money in the first place.