Re: Our scrap dealing future
You don't need to be replaced by machines. You could (for instance) introduce a national minimum wage, and watch a number of companies move manufacturing to China to reduce costs. Everybody then buys from the cheapest provider, leading to everybody else moving manufacturing to China to compete which destroys just as many jobs without any job creation. (In the country the goods are being sold in, anyway.)
Was this not entirely hypothetical problem caused the laws not stating that you had to pay somebody abroad the same as the people in the country the goods are being sold in, or by people not caring about the pay and working conditions of the people doing the work?
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