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oh no, you lost access to the people you were viciously exploiting because of your racism?
well boo fucking hoo
Exploiting how? They were paid employees. Employed by idiots, obviously, but that in itself is not exploitative.
The most direct way they were exploiting them was employing them and at the same time voting for policy that deports them and those working like them.
I'd tend to agree with you if it weren't for the support that farmer is giving Trump. They may have been paying a perfectly livable wage before. Now the Farmers will need to pay a wage that actually encourages locals work those jobs. Working for 12 hours a day would be a minimum of 100,000 for me.
This doesn’t feel like a genuine question, because it’s an open secret that a majority of american restaurants, farms, and construction outfits run on migrant labor at below minimum wage. I personally work in construction in Oregon, and I’m well aware of this, even hundreds of miles from a boarder.
I'm not American, so other than random articles I see shared on various social media of questionable reputation, I don't know. So yes, it's a genuine question.
If they're milking their own cows at 4 A.M. and complaining that there's no migrants to do the work, then one has to wonder if it's because they couldn't hire a citizen at the rates they were paying. If they can't hire a citizen at the rates they're paying well...
...it means that citizens are too far above manual labor. Still doesn't necessitate exploitation.
It doesn't necessarily mean that at all, that is your own personal opinion, not fact. Pay people a decent livable wage and they will perform your manual labour.
You think they were paying a decent, livable wage?
Obviously not. That's why they can't hire people that aren't at risk and exploitable.
This is why they want to fill the tech sector with h1b migrants. If they lose their job, they have a narrow window to find another corporate sponsor, or they get deported. This makes even the well paying, white collar, market exploitable in the same way we exploit migrant labor for farms.
all wage slavery is exploitation
L take, unless sarcasm
"A red is any son-of-a-bitch that wants thirty cents an hour when we're payin' twenty-five!"