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In reply to the discussion: Some Trump Voters Already Regret Their Decision Amid Concerns Over Tariffs, Job Cuts, and Rising Cost [View all]Farmer-Rick
(12,401 posts)The US labor market is dominated by retail sales clerk jobs and restaurant workers. Any factory that can pay more than those crappy jobs, won't have any problem with getting workers.
Then the number of crappy little sales and waiter jobs remaining empty increases ....I think our society will survive that.
Not sure how that 4B would translate here in the US. Did white women vote for Kamala in droves? I don't think so. And you don't necessarily need young labor to work in factories. Old people who have had their Social Security taken away can also work in factories.
And so what if the hammer costs more. People's wages would go up and they could afford the more expensive hammer. It's the free market working on wages. Less available labor will cost more.
But like I said it will take years. It took about 13 years for NAFTA to crush American labor.