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[–] 80 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Whew, that's sure gonna drive prices down, right?

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Ideally if no one is producing a product at all, the price would be zero. Right?

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  • Technically in such a case there would still be examples of feral production wherein plants are still reporducing away from people and folks just gather it. Though I don't know what the price would be for such an example.

    Also I use the term feral since a lot of crops are domesticated even if they are growing in the wild, domestication usually has irrevocable mutations attached.

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  • [–] 71 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    “The worry is they’ll pull you over when you’re driving and ask for your papers,” said Lidia

    Your papers, please (or "papers, please") is an expression or trope associated with police state functionaries demanding identification from civilians during random stops or at checkpoints. It is a cultural metaphor for life in a police state.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Sounds funny not in German

    Ihre Papiere, bitte. Wenn Sie nichts zu verbergen haben, werden Sie keine Angst haben

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    The first sentence is the first thing you hear when police pulls you over when driving.

    I prefer it to "Hands up, face on the ground, or I'll shoot you", which seems to be the default sentence in the USA, at least if you are not white.

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  • [–] 69 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    1.2 million real Americans can now get to work picking vegetables, fruits, food services, landscaping. 🫡

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    To be fair, being economically dependent on artificially depressed wages enabled by exploiting the desperation of immigrants was always a house of cards.

    Now we'll see how much Joe Strawberry needs to get out in the fields.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    And the number of whiney white farmers has increased by a million percent.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    They're all betting on the slave labor when their workers are returned to them as prisoners of their nearest auschitwz camp. The small farms haven't got a chance in hell unless they make the news for racism or some other such immoral grandstanding.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Agreed, but small farms barely exist anymore. When you read that story about a small farmer getting pissed because Trump isn't hurting the right people, remember that they own millions of dollars of equipment and land.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    They won’t whine. They may slightly complain that enough brown skins aren’t getting hurt (he’s not hurting who he should!) but they won’t really cause a stink, and they’ll keep falling in line and voting fascism no matter what they say.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    So that must mean there are 1.2 million job openings for US citizens, right?

    Right?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago*

    Nah it's fine, the jobs are gone anyway because China used to buy monstrous quantities of soybeans from the US, and will buy 0 in the last trimester - here's a link from Reuters. Brazil, Argentina, Chile have ramped up their production massively to accommodate the demand.

    Since the jobs are now in other places, no point migrating to the US.

    That's one way of solving the migration issues - nuke the economy and destroy the jobs, so people no longer come.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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    Imagine spending billions of dollars to reduce your economic output.

    Doh!

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Good thing we have plenty of work for all those computer science graduates whose jobs are now being done by AI.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I don’t see any maga going after or getting those jobs.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Cant wait for the whole thing to implode and we finally get to the FO portion of their FA. I'm so sick of all this.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    What's crazy is the conservatives have been hoarding Gold and waiting for the collapse of the Dollar for decades. Now they are in charge, they are finally bringing about the needless calamity they were hunkering down for.

    JFC I don't want to trade Gold for potatoes, I want Instacart to my house

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    While in the rest of the world, wages did go up

    Where the rest of the world has been progressing to a better world, the US has been sliding into a third world country for decades now

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Is this true? Genuinely curious if you have a source to back this up. I couldn't find one and wikipedia seems to suggest this is potentially a global issue. Can you point me to the place to see real wage growth for other countries vs US?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    One has only to think about it, would today's billionaires leave a resource unexploited, an economy un-leeched? They're working on all continents. But few countries are willingly degrading themselves and digging the collective bottom downward than Americans, who had it all and are now breaking it all down for someone else's profit.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Let them suffer the consequences of their actions.

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    [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    How does the number change when you add all the people (citizens or otherwise) who are willfully leaving?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I think they're already included.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Odd, because the headline specifically says "immigrants".

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    More than 1.2 million immigrants disappeared from the labor force from January through the end of July, according to preliminary Census Bureau data analyzed by the Pew Research Center. That includes people who are in the country illegally as well as legal residents.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's ok, AI can build houses and harvest crops.

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