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The author seemed to be more pointing out opportunity costs and the inability to build a long-term employment structure as consequences.

Lower workforce participation, 'underemployed' workers, the rise of the gig economy (essentially just independent contractors with no insurance) and a concentration of wealth without community investment are others.

Some of that is countered by going for illegal labor practices specifically, but mostly it's countered by restructuring the incentives companies work with and constraining their freedom to act generally.



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