[busterarm]

Not picking any particular dog in this fight, but the western labor market also has become very adversarial.

I knew a guy whose family had a tree nursery in Texas and they stopped hiring citizens and eventually white people outside of blood relatives completely. They tried for quite a long time, including raising prices, long training periods and safety equipment purchases, etc.

Eventually after several dozen people "accidentally" shear off a tiny piece of their pinky to seek a Workers Compensation claim only weeks into the job trying to claim permanent disability, you either stop putting yourself at risk or you go out of business.

They even won most of the cases, largely because they would usually catch these dummies on camera doing it intentionally, but the legal defense itself is still quite expensive and draining...

[kevin_thibedeau]

The citizenry has to plan for a future in their home economy. That make labor intensive minimum wage jobs a bad option if you need to hold two jobs to get ahead. Migrants can tough it out for a few annual trips and return with more savings than they could generate at home.

[busterarm]

I'm confused. Is this an attempt at justifying scamming employers for a long-term no-work payday?

Like, because the economy is so fucked it's okay to fuck over anyone who has the nerve to have a business that generates employment opportunities?

Maybe it's more accurate that labor and the value of labor are a product of culture.