[shadowgovt]

That one is also hard and complex in the sense that it will force the country to come to terms with how much of its economy is based on ignoring its own laws and an incoherent concept of fairness. In a democracy, getting people to accept pain (in this case, higher prices) to write a moral error that they generally experience only in the abstract is known hard; it's one of the reasons America clung to slavery so long, because in addition to unpaid labor propping up the corner of the Southern economy, the northern economy benefited from cheap raw materials.

[JumpCrisscross]

> That one is also hard and complex

It’s hard. Not complex. Simple and difficult.

[shadowgovt]

"Complex" because we'll discover things the under-protected labor are enabling that we have come to rely upon.

Infrastructure becoming unreliable makes complexity, and undocumented immigrant labor is American infrastructure. Has been for decades.

[rolandog]

Completely agree! Did we not learn from the pandemic? Countries run and rely on underpaid essential workers; they shouldn't underpay them, but capitalism pits workers across the globe into a race to the bottom for salary and safety.