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What's wrong with immigrant labor (apart from them taking "our" jobs)?
by chrischen 9y ago
What's wrong with immigrant labor (apart from them taking "our" jobs)?
- make3 9y agoit is implied that they are payed at a sweatshop price in sweatshop conditions
- ghostbrainalpha 9y agoahhh.... now it makes sense. I always thought the issue was just the inferior quality of the designer bags.
- chrischen 9y agoSo it's implied that in Southern California they are breaking minimum wage laws? Also, exploitation only applies if the workers 1) have no better option and 2) their options are artificially constrained by the party offering their only option. Anything else is simply failing to understand their situation.
- throwaway9d0 9y agoSegregation is technically illegal, but if you look at a census map for 8 Mile Rd in Michigan, it’s all white people to the north and black people to the south. In other words, please don’t assume that injustices can’t somehow still occur within systems that, by the letter of the law, have done away with injustice. I don’t know how to epxlain to you that immigrants assembling consumerist garbage in the US probably aren’t doing it because they weighed other options and thought it was the best one... And if you think they can “just leave”, ask yourself why so many of them haven’t.
- throwaway834768 9y ago“Segregation is technically illegal, but if you look at a census map for 8 Mile Rd in Michigan, it’s all white people to the north and black people to the south” Is theRe a historic reason for this, or example of schellings segregation model? http://ncase.me/polygons/ http://ncase.me/polygons/
- chrischen 9y agoAlso, exploitation only applies if the workers 1) have no better option and 2) their options are artificially constrained by the party offering their only option. Anything else is simply failing to understand their situation. Simply because they are abiding by minimum wage laws and making less than you are per hour does not mean they are exploited. Simply because Detroit is segregated in practice (as a result of factors beyond the control of most of the individuals) does not mean these workers are exploited. The fact that the dinosaurs went extinct even though they too, like us, deserve a chance to exist does not mean these workers were exploited.
- reaperducer 9y agoThey are often exploited, trafficked, abused, and paid less than anyone else. Again, see "sweatshops."
- ra1n85 9y agoNothing is wrong with immigrant labor. It's the abuse of immigrant labor that's wrong.
- wil421 9y agoDid you even read the article? There are pleanty of negative impacts caused by this specific method of cheap immigrant labor.