[bsder]

> For manual labor there's no amount of money you could pay Americans to be farmworkers.

Ever worked a blast furnace? Or a coal mine?

You absolutely can pay enough money to get Americans to do really shitty manual labor.

[red-iron-pine]

that may be manual labor but it requires skills, and comes with real risks.

and mines have a lot, like a LOT, of labor laws behind them. you know, the whole sending 10 year olds down the shaft thing and then literally covering up what went wrong.