What is one strategy that employers use to continue to do business despite high wages? scaling down the business to hire fewer people replacing some of the workers with machines looking for less-skilled workers to do a job paying less and hope to attract good workers

The correct answer is B)

One strategy that employer use over time to continue to do business despite high wages is to replace some of the workers with machines.                                                                                          

Explanation:

Machines may seem expensive at first, but over the long run, they are more productive and require less emotional intervention to get them running.

Employers of labour don't have to design special policies to manage the behaviour of machines.

Machines for instance don't get pregnant or take sick leave.

For the reasons given above, many employers of labour would take to gradually increasing the number of machines as wage increases.

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