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Drugs, Workers, and Capitalism

by ZihuaRob ⌂ @, Zihuatanejo, México, Saturday, September 06, 2025, 09:32 (429 days ago) @ surfguy

The fallacy of US policies about drugs and undocumented workers is so obvious it hurts.

Part of the error of the Soviet economic system was that in some ways it was supply driven. “If we make it, people will buy it.” Of course, people didn’t buy things they didn’t want just because the things were on the shelves.

As capitalists, American governments ought to believe that the demand-driven economy is what really works. As long as there is a demand for something, someone will provide supply.

As long as Americans demand drugs someone will supply the drugs, it doesn’t matter how many civilian watercraft the US Department of War blows out of the water, killing civilians… the drugs will continue to flow.

And as long as employers in the US demand vulnerable, easy-to-exploit undocumented workers, there will be such workers flowing into the country.

We read of tens of thousands of workers being sent to hellish incarceration having been picked up at work or on their way to or from work.

How many employers do we see being dragged of with the workers?

Start throwing CEOs, CFOs, hiring officers, and managers into Alligator Alcatraz for a few months and demand for these workers will drop. With no demand there will be no supply.


Border encounters are down 93% in 2025 since the same time last year…guess it’s lack of demand and nothing to do with policy.

Another spurious stat that doesn't reflect reality. During his first term, the Pedophile-in-Chief blocked border crossings resulting in a pile-up on the Mexican side of people waiting for their appointments to be processed. You see, there are laws, however broken and out of date they may be, and apparently the Pedophile-in-Chief wants them to remain broken for his theatrics. Laws that migrants were following but that the Pedophile-in-Chief tried to ignore, and when Congress tried to fix them he forbade the spineless RePUKElicans from doing so. Enter Biden, and the laws once again are in play, and the backlog comes down. So the details of "down 93%" from what matter. Once again, RePUKElicans inherit a problem already fixed by Democrats, like the economy that is now going to crap. Amazing so many people keep voting against their own interests by supporting the Pedophile-in-Chief and his spineless RePUKElicans. What could their true motivation be?
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