I just wanted to draw attention to this TikTok because I think it really highlights how little people understand about the world.
It was posted earlier in the thread but it moves so fast I'll just repost in favor of going back through 20 pages to find it.
There are three main complaints here that I'll touch on.
1) Egg prices are still high and increasing and Trump is president so it can't be blamed on Biden
2) How will produce be picked and manual labor be done if illegals are deported? Who will be blamed on the collapse of these systems?
3) Trump claims tariffs will bring business into the US, but we don't have the infrastructure to support these businesses. Who will build the factories and who will pay for it?
All of these complaints display a profound ignorance or genuine horribleness I feel they're worth pointing attention to.
1) Egg prices are still high.
This complaint either indicates they don't understand what impacts food prices, expected him to implement price controls, or are using it as a cheap programmed gotcha they don't actually even think about.
Trump never promised price controls, which would be the only way to get egg prices down in 5 days. No one wants them either because a basic "and then what would happen?" exercise would point to shortages and egg lines.
To address root cause issues is something that takes time. You can get liposuction and lose fat immediately, damned be the consequences, or you can address root cause issues like diet quality, factors that increase hunger, and activity to improve health.
The former is fast but not a real fix. The fat will just grow back, sometimes in weird ways. The latter will take time. Weeks, months, or even a year depending on how much fat there is to lose. But overall it's the better option because you also get improved health, better energy, better sleep, and a long term fix even if it requires long term change to maintain.
Egg prices are the same. What are the root causes? Increased fertilizer costs impacting crop costs and thus chicken feed costs, possibly. Avian flu and whatever is leading to it spreading. And definitely energy costs increasing the cost of everything due to the need to process, transport, package, and store the eggs. Not to mention energy needed for e.g. incubating new members of the flock and keeping them warm in their younger days.
Addressing these issues will bring down costs slowly, some people have said 90 days for energy, but in a much healthier way.
This isn't hard to understand.
2) Who will pick the produce?
Whenever I hear this line, I just think "But who will pick our cotton?" I'm not even joking. It's the same argument. Bringing foreigners into our country for cheap labor is not worth the consequences. We've seen what they are, and they're not worth it.
In this case the consequences include increased crime, child labor flying under the radar, and less unskilled labor opportunity for Americans. Not to mention increased housing prices.
I don't think it's even true that Americans don't want to work these jobs. I think they just don't want to do them and be paid like an illegal for the work. If Americans don't want to do the work for the wages you're offering, try increasing the wages, or targeting people who don't need living wages like teenagers.
Would this increase the price of food? Maybe. But with energy costs down it's very likely we could compensate for it. And have a healthier and happier country for it along the way. Me personally? I'll pay a few more cents for a carrot if it means the workers are American and paid well.
And you know what? If we still have a shortage, then this may push innovation forward. There are automated cow milking machines. What else can be automated? Could we use AI to detect ripe fruit and pick them? Some other sort of innovative solution? If there's a gap to fill I have no doubt we can fill it with ingenuity and technology. Not by exploiting illegal workers.
3) Who will build the factories?
I'm legitimately not sure if the implication is that tax payers will pay to build these factories. The companies who will use them pay for them. This is how it has worked in the past. This point made me wonder if she was retarded. And if they use American workers to build them? Even better.
Overall this single TikTok made me wonder how ignorant and retarded most millenials and zoomers are. We should force them to camps where they have to take economics classes and work on a farm for a season. Hey! Maybe that could help fill the worker supply gap!
