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This is such a weird comment, you might as well say no one forced humans to be such social creatures allowing viruses spread easily. People make relatively optimal local decisions based on the situation at hand. It's ludicrous to suggest they should have foreseen this situation and just paid more for labor. That kind of second-guessing could be applied to basically 90% of the world right now, and the other 10% just got lucky.

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Its not a weird comment. The current global mode of production is engineered to ONLY work when there are no global crisises at hand.

Guess what: we have a global crisis at hand now. Which means that the neoliberal modus operandi fails without a struggle. It just collapsed overnight.

And if you think otherwise, just answer me this: if tourism cedes to exist, what do wild west neoliberal goverments do (with their current lack of social safety nets) with their 8-10% of their "workforce" having zero capability to get an income?

Why are farmers responsible for this? How do you propose they would have paid for more expensive labor without broad collusion to keep prices high?

Easy - farmers can’t pay more because they would be outcompeted by those who pay less. Race to the bottom which ends predictably bad but which players in the market can’t do anything about short of illegal price fixing or temporary workers unionizing (like that could happen).

It could happen if there was a political will to have a framework for it to happen. There is not any in many countries, so that's that. Well, we will rethink these frameworks in the coming months, I am sure of that.

s/cedes/ceases/ (I don't mean to criticize, I've been noticing a lot of malapropisms recently. Auto-incorrect I imagine.)

Thanks, I was actually pausing a bit to check that word (in my head, at least), and concluded that I have no idea how it should be written :D Ceases indeed makes more sense!

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