[margalabargala]

Directly yes but there are knock on effects. What you say is true only when labor is not scarce.

The consequences of having insufficient labor is a large price factor. If you can only harvest 30% of your crop and the rest rots in the field because there's no one to pick it, that is outsized.

[hilsdev]

If you paid a lot more there would be more people to pick it

[margalabargala]

True!

And then the labor cost of food would no longer be near the bottom of the price factors.