In any event, if you can do that it shows that there is a surplus of labor. If there was a shortage of labor, wages would be increasing, not decreasing.
The example was in India, so I’m talking about other countries. I was specifically thinking about the last season of that show Gold Rush, with the Hoffman crew spending weeks and hundreds of thousands of dollars moving heavy equipment to Guyana. Bulldozers are sinking in the mud, etc. Then they find that a bunch of guys with shovels and sluice boxes came in and cleaned the claim out in the meantime.
Right, and in a free market without government interference, you would have lower wages, lower costs, and lower prices for the consumer. Supply and demand would drive prices lower so peole could buy more for less. Always a good thing.