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get ready for 300-400% inflation on food
That would be unpleasant, yes, and would require further efforts to minimize the consequences for those with low incomes (for instance, expansion of food subsidies, which yes would require even more taxation of those with wealth), however, if food prices aren't as high as that now because of near slavery conditions, then there's probably no ethical way to avoid it.
EXPANSION of food subsidies? They just gutted USDA programs providing food to food shelves all over the country. My local food bank recently switched to every two weeks instead of every week. It's already bad and only getting worse
You may misunderstand, I'm not making any prediction that this administration or any like what we've had in a long time, if ever, would do such a thing. What I'm saying is that if some government was installed that actually cared, it's not an impossibly to improve agricultural labor conditions without driving the working class broke from food cost increases.
Oh yeah, that's definitely true. But our food system isn't ass backwards on accident, you know?