[1rudeboy]

Oh yes it does, grasshopper. If you have the choice of running a modernized candy-making line with three employees in a location where sugar is one-third the price, you will choose it over running a modernized candy-making line with thirteen employees (due to union rules) where sugar costs three times as much. Think about it. Wages play a role, but not to the degree people think.

[dragnet2]

If it can be outsourced it will be, if they can bring in low wage labor to replace you they will.

Oh yes it does, grasshopper.

Oh no, it doesn't junior.

[mysterio]

Wages play a role, but not to the degree people think.

It's getting so deep now that I'm going to need a scuba mask.