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There absolutely would be mass starvation if we deported the 2.5 million non-citizen agricultural workers. That's 70% of our agricultural sector.
The vast majority of food you put in your mouth was made by migrants and immigrants. If they go, it goes. It's just that simple.
Good then. Mass starvation, let's go!!! Kick them all out and everyone starve! I want that. I want to see you starve while the rest of us get agriculture jobs and don't starve.
So your plan is that 2.5 million American citizens, including you, are going to leave their air-conditioned offices and rush to farms to plant and harvest and transport crops for twelve hours a day at minimum wage.
And you think there will be no disruption at all to the food supply when that happens.
And you actually want to do that. That's what you want to do with the rest of your life. You want to pick avocados for twelve hours a day, whether the sun's beating down on you or the rain's blowing in your eyes, and be rewarded with a crisp hundred-dollar bill at day's end.
You're getting crazier with every post, man.
Yes, that will happen. You really think people are going to starve in the streets with ample food a few miles away? They won't. You're an idiot.
lol, you're like a middle schooler who thinks that food magically comes from the grocery store.
The craziest part, to me, is that you want to work twelve-hour shifts picking avocados for low pay. So I just gotta ask: why aren't you doing that now? What's the barrier to living that dream?
You dont work in ag. Not even adjacent to it.
Waste, and excess capacity are universal Constants, because prices are kept so arbitrarily low.
Prices are so low entire groves go unpacked because even with slave wage labor, it still costs more to ship the shit than to leave it on the tree
Ah, so your argument is that since there's so much inefficiency and waste, we can afford to lose 70% of the agricultural workforce, huh. They're just basically there for decoration and we don't actually need them, and we just pay them salaries because, you know, it's fun?
They're subsidized by taxes, and used for luxury export. They're not for decoration, they're cash cows for rich people.
You said people would starve. I'm telling you most of the food grown DOESNT FEED US.
So fucking YES 70% of it going away wouldnt starve anybody, because it isnt feeding anybody.
See how retarded you sound?
Of course the Southern economy was in utter shambles during the Reconstruction. From 1865-1867, the two years after the war ended, food was extremely scarce and there was a major famine. Hundreds of thousands of civilians died; one historian pegs the number at a full million.
Clothes were the least of their concerns.
Hell, their economy still hasn't fully recovered; pretty much all of the poorest states are former slave states.