silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 hours agoA Trump-Voting Farmer's Warning: Mass Deportations Would Be a Disaster | Florida crackdown previews what could be in store for growerswww.bloomberg.comexternal-linkmessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up1127arrow-down10
arrow-up1127arrow-down1external-linkA Trump-Voting Farmer's Warning: Mass Deportations Would Be a Disaster | Florida crackdown previews what could be in store for growerswww.bloomberg.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 hours agomessage-square41fedilink
minus-squareIceblade@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22·14 hours agoSo the farmers will have to pay their workers a liveable wage? How terrible… Labor scarcity drives innovation & increases standards of living by driving up the value that workers can demand in exchange for their time. It’s simple economics.
minus-squareTreczoks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·10 hours agoIf they did, the prices for groceries would skyrocket and make Trumps “promise” to bring the prices down completely impossible to achieve.
minus-squareEnsign_Crab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agoI bet he plans to use prison labor. And to make new laws aimed at incarcerating minorities and the poor.
minus-squarephughes@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 hours agoI don’t think I’ve ever heard a Trump promise that was actually achievable.
So the farmers will have to pay their workers a liveable wage?
How terrible…
Labor scarcity drives innovation & increases standards of living by driving up the value that workers can demand in exchange for their time. It’s simple economics.
If they did, the prices for groceries would skyrocket and make Trumps “promise” to bring the prices down completely impossible to achieve.
I bet he plans to use prison labor. And to make new laws aimed at incarcerating minorities and the poor.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard a Trump promise that was actually achievable.