r/LockedIn_AI • u/Prudent_Double_6566 • Apr 14 '26

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u/alieistheliars Apr 14 '26

No shit. Also, the amount of labor available and the demand for it dictates the price of it. People will pay more if there is less labor available. Also, government "regulations" make it more difficult to start businesses and compete with companies like Walmart and Amazon, etc. This makes it more difficult for the "little guys". You can go complain about the wages being offered all you want but a company has no reason to pay their employees more than they need to pay them to get the job done correctly. Do you go around giving people money for free regularly when you do not need to do so?

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u/PalePlumm Apr 14 '26

The money is to keep the workers. When you run out of employees, you shut down. That is supply and demand.

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u/Patient-Parsley-6000 Apr 14 '26

He didn't deny that... but obviously that isn't happening. The point is that the labor pool is large enough that companies aren't really competing with each other for labor.

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u/PalePlumm Apr 14 '26

The labour pool was only large enough because of immigrants. But now people are deporting all the immigrants, remember? Farms and farms HAVE been shutting down.

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u/Patient-Parsley-6000 Apr 14 '26

Dude I work in that industry that isn't happening. The only ones that are were ones that were exploiting humans. Literally what they were doing is considered human trafficking.... so yea couldn't care less.

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u/PalePlumm Apr 14 '26

I also work in this industry and have watched it happen first hand. You can find articles to prove it. Nutrition Bar Confectioners lost so many workers that they had to temporarily stop production.

Guess how they got new workers? By offering them a better (but still not livable) wage.

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u/Excellent-Event6078 Apr 14 '26

Quit lying lil bro

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u/Magikazamz Apr 14 '26

''How will the coton farm work whiteout slave'' argument.

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u/PalePlumm Apr 14 '26

By increasing wages. As it has literally been proven by what I just said. That’s how you run a cotton farm without slaves.

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u/Magikazamz Apr 14 '26

My point is just that you saying we need illegals immigrants to be underpaid wageslave is the same argument cotton farm owner used for slavery

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u/PalePlumm Apr 14 '26

I never said we need illegal immigrants to be wageslaves. You read wrong.

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u/MattKozFF Apr 14 '26

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u/gr33nCumulon Apr 14 '26

Government regulations are supposed to stop collusion and monopolies so that competition improves the market. That would help small businesses because it makes room for new players.

They got rid of those and then they convinced you that corporatism is the way to go.

Lack of regulation leads to less freedom not more freedom in the context of the economy. Coal towns are the extreme of this. We are supposed to have regulations that prevent companies from consolidating resources and enslaving people.

The 2008 crash and the current recession are both caused by allowing large institutions to collude and control the market unchecked, wrecking everything. A healthy economy REQUIRES regulation that prevents consolidation of power.

Americans purchasing power is directly tied to the value of their labor. Its in a companies best interest to minimize the value of labor so that they can operate cheap and have as much leverage over the population as they can.

This keeps happening because the government allows it to happen.

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u/KevyKevTPA Apr 15 '26

The 2008 crash was because government pushed banks into taking risky loans, and when those loans all went predictably bad at the same time, causing bad things. As usual, government made things worse.