When wages for chamber maids rise 25% fewer people will invest in AirBnBs, ma and Pa hotels will start allowing weekly-only rentals.
People will switch to housekeepers who come once a week instead of twice, more farmers will use mechanization, teenagers will once again get jobs mowing lawns and NY will have two bodegas per block instead of three bodegas per block.
Not exactly a crushing blow to the economy.
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Hmm which one of us is arguing for higher wages for low-income workers?
Ok. We shall soon see if most people are willing to enforce our laws even if it costs.
Although we may argue about those who are able to provide productive work at least at the minimum wage, we can surely agree those who are not vetted and unable to perform useful tasks can be removed at a cost benefit.
The great Rush Limbaugh once read from a study that said wages and salaries (including wages and salaries of CEOs, truckers, warehouse workers and fruit pickers) comprise only 15% of the cost of food in the US.
(Most of the cost is in the cost of the farm the cost of the warehouse and the cost of the supermarket with a sprawling parking lot.) Raise the income of every fruit picker, every trucker and every CEO in the food industry by 20% and ya get a 3% increase in food prices . . . . NOT going to crush the economy.
People hire fewer nannies and take care of their own kids.
People clean their own houses.
Teenagers start cutting their familiesâ own lawns.
The ice cream truck drives down your street twice a day instead of three times a day.
You have to wait a whole 10 minutes to get a taxi
5% of all NYC cell phone stores go out of business etc.
I think you are not seeing that the demand for (so much) labor exists only becasue the price is artificialy low.
A typical supermarket has 31,704 products
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My local Walmart has 672 kinds of coffee available now. Incl 38oz Maxwell House Original, 38oz of Mazwell House Columbian 38oz of Maeell house Decaf, 10oz Maxwell House Original, 10oz Mazwell House Columbian, 10 oz Mazwell House Decaf, ditto with Folgers, and dozens of other brands.
Q. If Walmart suddenly were faced with an unskilled labor shortage what would happen? (pick one)
a. They would raise wages and trim their labor needs by offering only 500 coffee choices
-or- b. The economy would implode. Grass would never be cut. Kids would raise themselves and an apocalypse would begin.
Of course, the Biden andminstation keeps making it legal to hire the known lying law-breaking con artists who clam they need asylum form every single country between Texas and Venezuela so,
going after the Mahattanites who hire nannies and housekeeprs and lawn care companies etc. wonât accomplish much.
Fact is if they made it to Mexico and claim they need asylum from Mexico then either
1.) They are obvious liars and lawbreakers and should be locked up pending deportation
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2.) The Mexican government is an absolutley ghoulish human rights violator. We should immediately stop 100% of all Mexican trade, throw out their ambassdador, seize their assets etc. and demand they follow UN and other human rights conventons.
Or by removing millions of people from the labor pool in an already tight labor market where there is a severe farm worker shortage⌠even more farms will go out of business
