Oh yeah, having an AC full of toxic ammonia and explosive butane right next to your house is an excellent idea. Those units are fine if they are small (RV fridge) or large (hundred thousand sq ft warehouse.)
Now that HFCs are considered greenhouse gasses more environmental friendly (if not people friendly) processes may be mandated. You may get your wish.
How can you have a free labor market when the supply of workers is restricted by government support programs. People who live in section 8 housing, have an EBT card and get a welfare check are not going travel up and down the East coast all summer harvesting produce.
Then you have illegal immigrants allowed in who drive down the wages to those citizens who want to do migrant labor. The government is restricting the labor supply on one hand and flooding it on the other. Both which are detrimental to the country. Marginalized Blacks in the cities and exploited Hispanics in the country. Both groups overwhelmingly vote Democrat. Maybe that is the plan.
Deserts are ideal places to grow most crops. Abundant sunlight and low humidity prevents molds and blight. Few plants outside the watered areas to harbor insects. No excess rainfall to leach away your expensive fertilizers and drown your plants.
I have farmed spring potatoes in Florida. Seed pieces washed out of the ground by heavy rainfall. Seed pieces rotting in water soaked soil. Trying to harvest the crop from a muddy field is akin to being sent to Devil's Island.
Most positions only require a competent person, not the highest qualified. You can't hire the best qualified person without considering their interaction with their new co-workers. If you force a strident feminist into a shop of male jocks your productivity will go to hell. If you want to make money you do not engage in social engineering.
With government jobs you don't have to make money or actually achieve your purpose (such as giving children an education) so you can social engineer to your hearts content.
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. -- Jerome Klapka Jerome