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> It's because no one in the US would work gruelling hours for such little pay! There are entire towns in the US where nearly everyone is unemployed since the

> It's because no one in the US would work gruelling hours for such little pay! There are entire towns in the US where nearly everyone is unemployed since the manufacturing dried up. I would happily pay a few more dollars more per sneaker if it meant those people could have a job, and it meant my purchase went toward making someone's life here better. > levelling' will mean the US getting poorer It was never about being rich (maybe in a silicon valley bubble it is) but these people need jobs not only to live but for personal fulfillment. The fact that you are contributing positively to society. Not everyone wants to collect welfare or unemployment and do nothing for the rest of their life. It causes serious mental health issues and why the 'opioid epidemic' has ravaged these small former-manufacturing towns. People are hungry for work because they want to be part of society.

huevosabio 2y ago
I find it hard to sympathize, given how much work there is in this country. People cross the southern border illegally without knowing the local language and with close to no skills and still get jobs, build families and give a chance to prosper to their offspring. I'm not saying there's no hardship anywhere in the US, but rather that the US has so much richness as a whole that these towns you talk about should be going out of their way to find job elsewhere in the US. Its how urbanization works and has been the trend for a long time. There's no reason why every geographic location has to have a booming economy. Though every human should have the ability and right to move where the economic boom is happening.
- Jensson 2y ago
  > People cross the southern border illegally without knowing the local language and with close to no skills and still get jobs, build families and give a chance to prosper to their offspring. Those people work jobs with illegally bad working conditions and illegally low salaries.
  - huevosabio 2y ago
    Most don't, though. Most even pay taxes, though they don't receive welfare benefits of those taxes. I think you can make an argument that the minimum wage is too low, but it's hard to argue that the salary they take is illegal.

huevosabio 2y ago

I find it hard to sympathize, given how much work there is in this country. People cross the southern border illegally without knowing the local language and with close to no skills and still get jobs, build families and give a chance to prosper to their offspring. I'm not saying there's no hardship anywhere in the US, but rather that the US has so much richness as a whole that these towns you talk about should be going out of their way to find job elsewhere in the US. Its how urbanization works and has been the trend for a long time. There's no reason why every geographic location has to have a booming economy. Though every human should have the ability and right to move where the economic boom is happening.

Jensson 2y ago
> People cross the southern border illegally without knowing the local language and with close to no skills and still get jobs, build families and give a chance to prosper to their offspring. Those people work jobs with illegally bad working conditions and illegally low salaries.
- huevosabio 2y ago
  Most don't, though. Most even pay taxes, though they don't receive welfare benefits of those taxes. I think you can make an argument that the minimum wage is too low, but it's hard to argue that the salary they take is illegal.