You seem to be arguing that automation in fact could replace people if only we could get rid of the people. As cleverly as that line of magical thinking avoids real difficulties, there is still some nagging theoretical difficulty around how bankrupt businesses are going to roll out their brilliant automation strategies. Are you with me here? Because automation’s not feasible now, you cover the agricultural sector with a handkerchief and wave your magic wand, and all of a sudden Dorothy and Toto are the only non-androids on the family farm. Is the secret ingredient ICE indefinite detention labor? Gosh, if automation was really about to eliminate the problem of migrant labor anyway, I wonder if that would mean the jobs bonanza for naturally-born U.S. persons you’re after would be less than the lavish workers’ paradise you make it out to be?
Is migrant labor crime? I don’t think so. Historically, it’s not been. Why should it be now? Bonus points if you can convince me without calling me names.
Does seem like you’re blaming agriculture for not playing by rules that’ve been drawn up lately to justify rounding up people and putting them into camps. People have gone where the work was, when it was, even when it was hard work for lousy pay, for a long time. A lot longer than the emergence of publicly-traded private prison corporations desperate to populate their internment camps. You might reconsider using the phrase ‘counterfeit labor’ as it comes off as a tin-eared euphemism. If you’re not satisfied with the resolution of the Mexican-American War, seems a bit late to declare hostilities are back on.
Your notion a minimum wage creates peasantry seems well beyond daft to me, but then again I’ve never understood the perilous logic of insisting that holding a job means as little as humanly possible. No offense, it’s blindingly obvious is all.
You seem to be arguing that automation in fact could replace people if only we could get rid of the people. As cleverly as that line of magical thinking avoids real difficulties, there is still some nagging theoretical difficulty around how bankrupt businesses are going to roll out their brilliant automation strategies. Are you with me here? Because automation’s not feasible now, you cover the agricultural sector with a handkerchief and wave your magic wand, and all of a sudden Dorothy and Toto are the only non-androids on the family farm. Is the secret ingredient ICE indefinite detention labor? Gosh, if automation was really about to eliminate the problem of migrant labor anyway, I wonder if that would mean the jobs bonanza for naturally-born U.S. persons you’re after would be less than the lavish workers’ paradise you make it out to be?
Is migrant labor crime? I don’t think so. Historically, it’s not been. Why should it be now? Bonus points if you can convince me without calling me names.
Does seem like you’re blaming agriculture for not playing by rules that’ve been drawn up lately to justify rounding up people and putting them into camps. People have gone where the work was, when it was, even when it was hard work for lousy pay, for a long time. A lot longer than the emergence of publicly-traded private prison corporations desperate to populate their internment camps. You might reconsider using the phrase ‘counterfeit labor’ as it comes off as a tin-eared euphemism. If you’re not satisfied with the resolution of the Mexican-American War, seems a bit late to declare hostilities are back on.
Your notion a minimum wage creates peasantry seems well beyond daft to me, but then again I’ve never understood the perilous logic of insisting that holding a job means as little as humanly possible. No offense, it’s blindingly obvious is all.
You're shtick is getting old.
Try again when you have something to actually contribute to the discussion more substantive than your nonsensical rambling.
Hey, good luck with that M.B.A.!