Florencia (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoTrump Has Promised to Build More Ships. He May Deport the Workers Who Help Make Them.www.propublica.orgexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up1167arrow-down14cross-posted to: usa@lemmy.mlusa@midwest.socialpolitics@lemmy.world
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minus-squareDelta_V@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoYeah, its not credible to claim that large, profitable enterprises will “implode” if the supply and demand curve shifts slightly. At the most cynical level, businesses that depend on cheap labor from undocumented immigrants will get squeezed as their labor costs increase. America’s Military Industrial Complex isn’t going to fail if market forces require they offer more money to secure a sufficient supply of labor.
Yeah, its not credible to claim that large, profitable enterprises will “implode” if the supply and demand curve shifts slightly.
At the most cynical level, businesses that depend on cheap labor from undocumented immigrants will get squeezed as their labor costs increase.
America’s Military Industrial Complex isn’t going to fail if market forces require they offer more money to secure a sufficient supply of labor.