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Why can't we train our own citizens to become construction workers? If you claim that people "don't want to work" for those wages, then isn't immigration keepi
by siriusastrebe 3mo ago
Why can't we train our own citizens to become construction workers?
If you claim that people "don't want to work" for those wages, then isn't immigration keeping our wages down?
Wouldn't business owners pay more for labor if there wasn't a stead supply of under the table illegal immigrants doing it for less?
- HDThoreaun 3mo agoImmigration is keeping wages down for jobs natives dont want. I dont see the issue. > Wouldn't business owners pay more for labor if there wasn't a stead supply of under the table illegal immigrants doing it for less? Maybe, or maybe they just employ less people and less things get built.
- marcusverus 3mo agoThere's no such thing as "jobs natives don't want", only "wages natives don't want". > Maybe, or maybe they just employ less people and less things get built. The foreign born population residing in the US fell from ~15% to ~5% from 1920-1970. It was one of the most prosperous and productive periods in human history.
- HDThoreaun 3mo agoUS was prosperous post war because the industrial capacity of the rest of the world was destroyed. Comparing that time period to any other doesnt make sense. We can only employ natives if we want, we just have to accept that prices of things that are currently run on immigrant labor will go up, and a lot less of it will be produced. Personally I am unwilling to make that tradeoff but obviously you dont have to agree. US labor market suffers seriously from baumol's cost disease, only solution to that is immigration with the understanding that immigrants will take unwanted jobs in exchange for a better life for their kids.
- marcusverus 3mo agoEveryone has their own priorities, I guess. I'm not willing to drive down Americans' wages to save a buck on strawberries.