Hard to say re: labor cannibalization - if you are sociopathic about the labor force like Trump is, all these fentanyl deaths are just spare capacity that didn’t have an input interface and should have been in a factory.
1930's Gulags, in other words. The productivity of the unwilling and unskilled workforce, as well as the quality of their output, has been horrendous. The only thing the camps were good at were rapidly reducing the numbers of "undesirables".
