The equilibrium wage paid by the market for the jobs they formerly occupied would rise:
Lower supply of worker = higher wage demanded for replacement workers.
It would be a boon to the American middle-class, and for a time people would probably pay a higher consumer price for the cost of those goods.
Big deal.
Big companies want you to believe the ridiculous fallacy that lettuce would permanently disappear, that there would no longer be car-washes —they’d never come back, etc.
Companies simply want outsized leverage over workers who are (initially) scared to complain about working conditions or bring legal claims against employers.
American workers who’d benefit:
1. Blacks
2. Truck drivers
3. Dry-wall guys
4. Roofers
5. Builders
6. Fast-food workers
7. Hotel housekeeping
8. Restaurant workers
9. Farm workers
10. Equipment operators