All else being equal, you do want to minimize your input costs, labor, capital, raw materials, and otherwise, in whatever activities you're engaged in.
The fact that fossil fuels allow for a huge avoided cost (that of the prehistoric accumulation of sunlight and transformation into fuels) doesn't make low labor costs inherently bad.
I'm wrapping my head around various bits of the labor / wage equity question, but on balance I suspect it's largely independent of cost inputs to basic resources, including energy, which would mean that you're confounding two unrelated issues.
The goal should be to have sufficient accessible well-paying jobs. Not for them to necessarily be in low-productivity, but nonetheless essential, energy harvesting positions.
The fact that fossil fuels allow for a huge avoided cost (that of the prehistoric accumulation of sunlight and transformation into fuels) doesn't make low labor costs inherently bad.
I'm wrapping my head around various bits of the labor / wage equity question, but on balance I suspect it's largely independent of cost inputs to basic resources, including energy, which would mean that you're confounding two unrelated issues.
The goal should be to have sufficient accessible well-paying jobs. Not for them to necessarily be in low-productivity, but nonetheless essential, energy harvesting positions.
Though that may turn out to be the case.