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Well, so did mine -- on the other side of the management/labor divide.

Tech companies should not therefore look to Big Corps who just hire large amounts of unskilled labor.

[The worker] needs a job, but their labor is surplus and unnecessary.

I am certainly less snarky about kids going to do unskilled construction labor.

Often this takes the form of hard, manual labor, agricultural or otherwise.

I imagine they have spent many iterations on the problem, and I am very excited to see the fruits of their labor.

My brother worked very hard to add software where possible but needed to do mostly 'real world' labor to get to his customers.

The objective of a labor intensive business is to drive costs down the lowest possible amount legally.

There are a lot of very fundamental misunderstandings of economics and labor structures in here.

But there are other less dramatic things they might be doing besides money laundering: using undocumented labor, for example.

As agriculture labor shifted to much cheaper migrant workers and automation, the people who used to live in these places year round either became less affluent, or moved away.

Means-tested social assistance is now a vestigial remnant of an economy strictly dependent upon labor as its primary input for growth.

Drivers ended up atomized and could not collectively bargain against the buyers of their labor, decently-sized companies who had monopsony power in the trucker marketplace.

Undocumented labor is a more likely possibility, but again, no restaurant or in fact no retail place in Paris will let you take pictures inside their premises without a very strong confrontation.

However, in the 80s and 90s, various Republican and Democratic administrations collaborated with trucking companies to make war on the unions.

In part this is because Washington allows non-competes, but also doesn't like to infringe on the free flow of labor -- temporary restraining orders preventing an individual from working for a company are extraordinarily rare.