Poor people generally do not like cheap labor. One of the main reasons the north didn’t like slaves in America was because poor free white people could not compete in the job market with cheaper slaves. Example modern times. Upper class people like cheap labor to cut their grass.(Mexicans) Poor people are going to cut their own grass, whether it’s 40$ or 25$.
Fair enough, but I suppose it doesn’t really matter for the poor.
If there’s not cheap labor, prices will have to go up, so really, cheap labor or costly labor, either way, the poor person on the bottom is still the poor person on the bottom.
You mention grass, but just take all the made in china stuff. That’s all about taking advantage of cheap labor. Everyone seems to have a phone these days, even the poor. Maybe, if that wasn’t the case, we’d have lots of jobs that pay well, but that still results in higher cost of goods so no one is really doing better because of it.
Outside of technological advancements, I’m not sure how it’s possible to pay low skilled laborers well. When you increase the cost of basic labor, the cost of basic goods go up with it.
Immigration hurts wages. Poor people don’t need a cheap Barbie doll or cheap iphone. They would be better off with a construction job, building their own house on cheap land but illegal Mexicans make that impossible. The Mexicans don’t pay taxes. If they start to get caught they just go back to Mexico. They form groups that don’t hire Americans. Happens in every immigration community in one way or another.
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Everyone likes cheap labor. The poor like cheap labor because it keeps prices down. The rich like it because it keeps profits up.
Poor people generally do not like cheap labor. One of the main reasons the north didn’t like slaves in America was because poor free white people could not compete in the job market with cheaper slaves. Example modern times. Upper class people like cheap labor to cut their grass.(Mexicans) Poor people are going to cut their own grass, whether it’s 40$ or 25$.
Fair enough, but I suppose it doesn’t really matter for the poor.
If there’s not cheap labor, prices will have to go up, so really, cheap labor or costly labor, either way, the poor person on the bottom is still the poor person on the bottom.
You mention grass, but just take all the made in china stuff. That’s all about taking advantage of cheap labor. Everyone seems to have a phone these days, even the poor. Maybe, if that wasn’t the case, we’d have lots of jobs that pay well, but that still results in higher cost of goods so no one is really doing better because of it.
Outside of technological advancements, I’m not sure how it’s possible to pay low skilled laborers well. When you increase the cost of basic labor, the cost of basic goods go up with it.
Immigration hurts wages. Poor people don’t need a cheap Barbie doll or cheap iphone. They would be better off with a construction job, building their own house on cheap land but illegal Mexicans make that impossible. The Mexicans don’t pay taxes. If they start to get caught they just go back to Mexico. They form groups that don’t hire Americans. Happens in every immigration community in one way or another.