JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"Rudy Canoza" wrote in message
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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"Rudy Canoza" wrote in message
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If you take away an entire labor force, what do you suggest to keep
industries from collapsing? Magic? Prayer?
What basis do you have for thinking the industries would collapse?

Farmers have real problems selling their crops if they can't harvest
them.
Farmers might just have to pay the cost of getting the crops harvested.


Good. Now we're getting somewhere. Now you can tell me why you don't see
nice white American kids busting their asses picking vegetables.

It has never been any mystery.


And, you
can tell me how you'd replace migrants if they were all sent back to their
native countries.

You wouldn't replace all of them. Because input costs
of producing some crops would rise a lot, the prices of
those goods in stores would also rise. Because of the
price rise, people would consume less of them. Because
people are consuming less, the amount produced would
fall. Because less is produced, less labor is needed.

If one understands basic theory of consumer demand and
basic theory of the firm - with seven years of
economics under my belt, including three at the Ph.D.
level, I understand them; how about you? - then there
is no great mystery to how this would play out at all.