It's easy to have a work ethic when you're a third world native in a first world country. If I could go to a country where they quintupled my earnings, I'd probably work a lot harder too. But picture yourself a low/no-skilled American worker. Your wages are sh!t by US standards. You are at the mercy of your employer. You have almost no s…
It's easy to have a work ethic when you're a third world native in a first world country. If I could go to a country where they quintupled my earnings, I'd probably work a lot harder too. But picture yourself a low/no-skilled American worker. Your wages are sh!t by US standards. You are at the mercy of your employer. You have almost no social capital, and you could lose your crappy rental apartment if you have to pay for a major car repair or a medical bill.
Illegal and legal immigrants have the additional advantage of having something of a community with the people they work with--a small group of countrymen working together to pull themselves up.
But their presence in large numbers in the United States depresses the wages of our own workers still further. It's Econ 101: too much of any resource depresses its value. Too many low/no-skilled workers depresses their value. For the immigrants, it's no big deal because they're making far more than they were, and sending a lot of it home to relatives. But for the US workers, if they are meat packers or construction workers, for ex, their wages have plummeted over the last generation.
It's easy to have a work ethic when you're a third world native in a first world country. If I could go to a country where they quintupled my earnings, I'd probably work a lot harder too. But picture yourself a low/no-skilled American worker. Your wages are sh!t by US standards. You are at the mercy of your employer. You have almost no social capital, and you could lose your crappy rental apartment if you have to pay for a major car repair or a medical bill.
Illegal and legal immigrants have the additional advantage of having something of a community with the people they work with--a small group of countrymen working together to pull themselves up.
But their presence in large numbers in the United States depresses the wages of our own workers still further. It's Econ 101: too much of any resource depresses its value. Too many low/no-skilled workers depresses their value. For the immigrants, it's no big deal because they're making far more than they were, and sending a lot of it home to relatives. But for the US workers, if they are meat packers or construction workers, for ex, their wages have plummeted over the last generation.
https://americancompass.org/the-commons/worker-power-loose-borders-pick-one/