• Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee
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      10 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.

      • mPony@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

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

      • csm10495@sh.itjust.works
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        10 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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      10 months ago

      That’s a great way to enable fascists like ICE who’d just exploit such policies to throw Hispanic people into concentration camps. They’ve been doing it since Obama. True facts, look it up

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        No they don’t. They deport the guy working for his family and fine the employer. Imagine the opposite situation where working illegally was a fine and employing illegal workers was losing your business license.

        That’s how they punish underage drinking. It’s a massive issue for bars, and a small issue for the kid. Consequently, no bars serve underage kids. It works.