>restaurant industry A job for teenagers and aspiring actors. >farm labor Okay, but we specifically import people to work for low (often illegally low) wages

>restaurant industry A job for teenagers and aspiring actors. >farm labor Okay, but we specifically import people to work for low (often illegally low) wages. Work for an adult, maybe, but not much of a living. >and other unsavory industries. Same problem as with farm labor, except now it's "unsavory" instead of "honest work". It's not right to have a bimodal distribution of "high class professional jobs" and "unsavory jobs with low trust requirements". You need a lower-end but respectable place for people to be that's better than criminality, and you certainly can't say "go work in one of those unsavory industries" if you want them to think its better than being a criminal. In American culture we GLORIFY criminality, and loathe low-class "unsavory" work. Why would anyone choose unsavory work over being a criminal in the current environment?