If they're illegal, all of them, since they risk deportation whenever they report? For example, stories like this are almost *always* about immigration as well as unsafe working conditions.https://forward.com/news/1006/in-iowa-meat-plant-kosher-e2-80-98jungle-e2-80-99-breeds-fea/ …
do you really believe an across-the-board substitution for unskilled labor is possible? previous waves of industrialization replaced up to 95% of the workforce but there was plenty of unskilled labor left
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if anything i suspect the next wave of computerized automation will replace skilled labor (eg most MDs will be easily replaced by algorithms)
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I think we're all screwed, personally.
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You don't understand how little economics you know if you think the lump of labor argument implies labor supply and capital supply do not affect wages vs capital income this isn't some sophisticated or difficult idea, it's the first week of micro i'm sorry
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Shane, Dogma, and Matty G: Read some of the articles on the pro-American labor
@EconomicPolicy website. You'll find cogent rebuttals there, that support much of what Toad and Lacrimas said. Lacrimas is correct especially re lump of labor fallacy.
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