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Originally Posted by Noren
On a slightly positive note: all those mexicans, are they not doing tedious labour that most americans shun at, while providing for themselves and at the same time keeping production costs way low?
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Myth. Illegal labor drives wages down across the board. The great lie that Americans do not want to work these tedious jobs is just that...A lie. When the wages are driven into the dirt by surplus cheap labor well then of course nobody in their right mind is going to want to work for 4 dollars an hour when minimum wage is almost double that! But their are legal immigrants who would work those jobs as well as born Americans that would work those jobs for minimum wage. Its all greed that fuels these company's that want to pay half under the table than what is deserved plus they don't have to worry about paying overtime or medical (Tax payers do that) Etc.
So its a two way street since these company's exploit the cheap labor yet the cheap labor has little option but to be exploited.