1.2 million real Americans can now get to work picking vegetables, fruits, food services, landscaping. 🫡
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"Noooo! Trump was supposed to bring factories back to the US so I could own one, not work in one!" - Trump voter
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.
But exploitation has worked flawlessly for hundreds of years! I can't think of a single powerful group that doesn't swear by it!
"Now we got rid of the immigrants, we can have our slaves back!"
Too late, farms have closed.
Does that really bother you? I’d take the job, but I have 5 million Indians doing that already in Canada.
Imagine spending billions of dollars to reduce your economic output.
Doh!
Whew, that's sure gonna drive prices down, right?
Ideally if no one is producing a product at all, the price would be zero. Right?
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.
Might actually happen if exports drop down to zero and the farmers have to sell everything domestically.
At least for one season until all the farmers go bankrupt.
“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.
Sounds funny not in German
Ihre Papiere, bitte. Wenn Sie nichts zu verbergen haben, werden Sie keine Angst haben
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.
Good thing we have plenty of work for all those computer science graduates whose jobs are now being done by AI.
The real reason for firing federal employees.
So that must mean there are 1.2 million job openings for US citizens, right?
Right?
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.
For highly desirable, well paid positions with a pension and healthcare. For reals.
Yeah for $7.25/hr
Hahahahahaha, hahaha, ha ha, ha oh....
A lot of these jobs pay by the bushel
So $3.75 for most prior unemployed americans doing that job?
I don’t see any maga going after or getting those jobs.
They're called magats.
“These are people of the land, the common clay of the new west, you know… morons”
And the number of whiney white farmers has increased by a million percent.
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.
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.
Unfortunately mid to upper sized farmer is now the small farmer. There are still "family farms" but family farms that have 10+ million invested are the only ones thriving to any degree.
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.
This one should freak us all out:
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
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?
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.
Once the magats get our currency devalued and knock us out of being much of the worlds reserve currency, they’ll be able to greatly increase pay
All right, crackers, get in the fields
Political prisoners maybe...
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.
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
It's taking too long for the ship to sink.
Are we "great again"?
美国很快就会变得伟大。
距离让美国再次伟大仅剩四分之一英寸
Америка скоро снова станет великой
Let them suffer the consequences of their actions.