lol Americans are willing to do any job if the pay is right. Y'all rich Hollywood types are just too cheap so you import indentured servants, haha.https://twitter.com/ConanOBrien/status/1054880026968121344 …
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Replying to @wetsprocket
He can garden his own darn yard. Or at least pay a decent wage.
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Replying to @TheQuQu @wetsprocket
Odd how the same people who want to raise the minimum wage insist on importing a bunch of third world labour to "do the jobs Americans don't want to do (at that salary)". Really makes you think.
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Replying to @Banned_Ali @TheQuQu
>importing hey pal, that’s competition in the FREE MARKET
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Replying to @wetsprocket @Banned_Ali
It isn't even close to a free market unless you abolish the minimum wage for US workers, to allow them to match what illegal aliens get paid.
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Replying to @TheQuQu @wetsprocket
For a truly free market you'd also have to abolish borders tho. Personally, I think the notion of some sort of ideal free market is utopian and misguided: Any market in the real world will be influenced by environmental parameters, notably the state.
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There's the rub: what's the scope of a free market? A free market should be considerable on a national level, or maybe even a state level, without interfering with other nations or states.
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I don't think an absolutely free market can exist on any scale level. As far as I'm concerned any market is an emergent property of the parameters present at its formation, eg: what goods and services exist to be sold or traded, what laws and regulations exist, currencies, etc.
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My take is that a free market depends on the state for the enforcement of contracts. Additionally, a state is very useful for managing shared resources like forests and the airshed. Heck, I'll even validate statist roads and military for good measure.
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Exactly. Without state force you can't have liberal free markets. You'd have to have private security to protect you and your assets and ensure any trade/purchase is actually paid. In no time it'd be a black market where might makes right and the biggest mobster rules the rest.
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As someone of partial Italian descent I'm not seeing the problem here
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It's not an oligarchy, it's just a successful family business!
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