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>Americans, for example, think it is Ok for Mexicans to cook their food for close to nothing, and having African Americans clean for them for minimum wage. Whe
by pathseeker 8y ago
>Americans, for example, think it is Ok for Mexicans to cook their food for close to nothing, and having African Americans clean for them for minimum wage.
Where do you come up with this racist crap? As someone who grew up in a poor white area in the North of the US I can assure you that race has absolutely nothing to do with lack of low-paying jobs concern.
>Of course, there is no reason why these people should make close to nothing while other people throughout the economy have bullshit jobs that pay really well.
Supply and demand. It's economics 101. It's like claiming that there is no reason people should be paying over a thousand dollars for an ounce of gold when copper is only a couple of dollars a pound.
If the people with low paying jobs were qualified to do the higher paying job, the employer would happily hire them for a lower price to save money.
- zjaffee 8y agoOrganizing the price of labor around supply and demand is a choice that our society has made that comes with tons of perverse incentives such as organizing to make it more difficult for people to enter an industry. This is especially true because if you don't work, you'll almost certainly be homeless, hungry, ect so the entire premise of there being a fair market for labor is false.