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Originally Posted by SuperPickle
Ummmm I'm pretty sure "neoliberal propaganda" isn't a real thing. Just a crazy twitter term.
However what is real is industries like food processing, landscaping, horse racing etc are. If landscapers had to pay employees 80% more they'd have to charge people 80% more. If had to pay food processing employees more it would dramatically cause the price of food to increase. If day rates for trainers went up $25-$50 a day owners would leave the game.
So it's not the lack of domestic labor it's the wages tied to the industries.
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The issue is real in horse racing. I already had this conversation with my own trainer 2 months ago. He was concerned.
What you are suggesting is also correct.
But there is a flip side to it. Yes, if the cost of labor went up consumers would have to pay more for goods and services and a few owners might drop out, some people might start doing their own landscaping etc.. but more US citizens would take those jobs because they would offer a decent wage. So there would be fewer US citizens collecting welfare, food stamps, medicaid etc...
There is no perfect answer to this. There are winners and losers in all of these things. Most of the rest of it is just an argument about who the winners and losers should be and which political party is lying to us about it worse.
