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by emodendroket 4112 days ago
> (1) Pay them more, so they can afford to live here. But that begs the question. Where is the money going to come from? Frankly, it's unlikely we'll just suddenly start paying construction workers and plumbers and teachers more.

Why not raise the minimum wage? As you've alluded to, it's not that easy to just fire all low-wage workers because wages have gone up.