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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: combjelly who wrote (66554)4/13/2018 11:36:52 AM
From: zzpat  Read Replies (1) of 361316
 
Now it very well may be that economic opportunity for the working class is zero sum, that economic opportunity can only be expanded for some groups at the expense of the others.
It's also possible that women, blacks and kids entering the workforce gave companies access to cheap labor which forced wages down. At some point, the economic gains from all that cheap labor dissipated.

Slavery was about "free labor" more than anything else. The north didn't think the south should have access to free labor when they had to pay for it.

Most of our economic and social divides are about cheap labor. How can a business get more of it? Does it go to China and then Vietnam after Chinese workers ask for more money? Of course, it does. But blame immigrants. It's easier to explain.
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