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It’s broken by design because certain key US industries, like construction, hospitality, restaurants, cleaning, and agriculture, are dependent on a supply of un
by api 1y ago
It’s broken by design because certain key US industries, like construction, hospitality, restaurants, cleaning, and agriculture, are dependent on a supply of under the table below minimum wage and tax and benefit free labor.
- mapt 1y agoThat begs the question of why not just fix it. It's broken because of intersection of demand for labor with three other things: American society has always had a somewhat racist, xenophobia character Right-wing oligarchical power sees exploiting this character as their path to lower tax rates and a regulation-free corpo state, and has poured tens of billions of dollars into media to set the terms of the conversation The system for proposing and passing laws has been fundamentally dysfunctional and irrational for a long time. A system with a filibuter-containing Senate and strong partisan infrastructure after the campaign finance system and media circus has matured, evidently just cannot make decisions on sensitive subjects like this.