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Economists are ofc shitting their pants over this and demanding more skilled labor from overseas to compensate. One might wonder if bringing in more migrants into a contracting economy would contribute to the already staggering number of unemployed men, but I don't have an MBA from Harvard so I guess I just can't understand their logic.
Elon is a pussy. He's unsuspending the liberal journos who tried to have his son assassinated in 7 days, but still leaving millions of right-of-center accounts banned by the old regime suspended forever. He's the Donald Trump of social media.
Unfortunately, the comic is simplistic. The issue has more facets:

1. For minimum wage today to equal the buying power of minimum wage in 1980, minimum wage in 2022 ought to be about $27 / hour.

2. Immigration, both legal and illegal suppresses the natural rate of wages. It leads to less capital formation per capita and thus keeps people poorer while enriching investors unduly.

3. Because of artificially low minimum wage, i.e., Congress mandated wage vs competitive market for wages, there is excessive malinvestment in the retail sector including in fast food restaurants. The economy that has resulted is one from distortion rather than from the hidden forces of competition.
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Wow, you mean to tell me when America was a high trust society 70 years ago, you could just have people listed in the Yellow Pages and nothing would happen to them? Hmmm, I wonder why that changed Matt.
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