Quote (JessiWan @ Oct 21 2021 01:30pm)

You talk like these people were indispensable. They aren't. Without blacks or Mexicans, the States would still do fine. Businesses would just have to pay higher wages to attract laborers into the agricultural and industrial fields. End result? Workers get paid a living wage and refuse like the blacks and mexicans are kept out.

Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Oct 21 2021 06:57pm)

It wouldn't drive companies out of business. It would annihilate the food economy in the United States.



Imagine going to the store and a tomato is $5. All the corn syrup is unaffected though, since that's all an industrial process without significant human intervention.

So what would end up happening is the easy to make highly processed shit that is nothing but high fructose corn syrup stays the same, and all the healthy fresh vegetables go up at least by a factor of 5.

Quote (Kuggergug @ Oct 22 2021 03:51am)

There is an upper limit to wages. That limit is where robots are competitively priced. And the cost of robotics keep falling. $25 is already pushing it.

Quote (JessiWan @ Oct 22 2021 06:05pm)

Why should humans have to compete with robots? Band together with other replaced people, put rifles in our hands, march into the mansions of the rich capitalists and demand that they share some of their wealth with us, so that we can live.

Quote (GodSmiter @ Oct 23 2021 02:32pm)

sounds like your a commie :)

Quote (GodSmiter @ Oct 23 2021 11:32am)

sounds like your a commie :)

Quote (JessiWan @ Oct 22 2021 07:55pm)

Maybe we just need to raise wages for all workers across the board.

And no, prices of fresh veggies would not be too high as to be out of reach for the average consumers. Just force the multi-billionaires or the Rothschilds to share some of their wealth with us. We, especially if we are the middle class, earned the bulk of that money for them. So, we deserve it.