When was this ever attempted at scale? My dad owned a landscaping company and employed illegal laborers. He tried hiring Americans but yeah, they never worked out. Never wanted to do the work. He could not find willing workers even when paying a slightly higher rate. If he paid a much higher wage, maybe he could have found people, but then he couldn’t stay in business because his competitors would undercut him by hiring illegals. If we remove the illegals, then that levels the playing field. Prices will need to increase. Some industries will survive and others won’t. If a business produces an important product that is in strong demand, like meat, people will continue to buy it because it is high value, and they will sacrifice other purchases in order to afford it. If a business produces a product that is more discretionary, like pedicures, then they might not survive, since customers are now spending higher percentages of their income on groceries. They won’t have money left over for Amazon junk, pedicures, or house cleaners. That is OK. |
Prisoners. Welfare recipients. Unemployed people. You must work to get government benefits. |
Alabama tried prisoners and they wouldn't do the work. I bet you that people who get gov't benefits won't do it. |
THIS. It needs to be shouted from the rooftops |
😂😂😂 I cannot. People can’t really think this? Right, right? The GOP just voted down an increase in the federal min wage increase in April. |
I just can’t. People, please read the news. Japan has had stagnation for DECADES. The lost decades, anyone? The pea sized apartments that are so small the sink is on the back of a toilet. |
Landscaping services are far from affordable despite widespread use of undocumented workers. If there is shortage, then what’s likely going to happen is self-employed young men will be doing this work (It’s becoming popular as a side business with HS and college guys) for a fee that would take the middle man (owner) out of equation. The prices will stay the same. Self employed handymen, carpenters, plumbers, landscapers are already out there. I may suck for private equity company buying mom and pop landscaping and other skilled labor business to hike up prices and make profits running them to the ground. It may suck for greedier business owners who want cheapest possible labor while billing prices to the customers as if they are employing college grads from top schools. Truth is trades companies bill diff prices depending on the neighborhood and how much loose disposable income customers tend to have vs. having set prices based on job difficulty and duration. If this model falls apart, I won’t be crying. |
MAGA doesn't have a plan |
White people in blue states aren't going to take these manual labor jobs because they are too educated for them. No one with a college education is going to work a field or a factory.
White people in red states will be the ones to maybe take the jobs, but all my maga relatives in red states are lazy af and suck off the government's teat. This is a problem we created ourselves by pushing the narrative in high school that college was the only path to success. Even on here, the college forum is full of parents fretting over test scores, weighted/unweighted GAPs, and extracurriculars because not getting into a top college is seen as being a huge failure. Parents have the attitude that any school that isn't a T20 is trash and no one who graduates from there will ever be successful. So yeah we can kick out all the immigrants who do these manual labor jobs for pennies on the dollar, but the fact remains that the US doesn't have the workforce to fill these jobs. |
Trump and republicans just hate everyone. They are crazy hate filled people. |
We have built a service and IP economy that the felon and MAGA are too dumb to consider. DH is a lawyer who is paid nearly 100% by foreign companies and has been for his 30-year career. His job isn’t accounted for, and he’s hardly alone. |
Trump said he's going to empty US jails and send the prisoners to El Salvador. Its cheaper for them to house them. |
After every immigrant is deported, we pick our own cotton. |
That’s what liberals are rightly afraid of. We is usually thee. And is based on race and gender. |
You are a nut job. |