I've talked to farmers and they swear up and down that illegals are necessary for their business and Americans won't do the work no matter how much you pay them. It's very annoying.
I wonder how much there is to that, though. Basic economics says you'll get employees at a certain price point, but if the culture is bankrupt then there is a hard cap on the number of reliable American workers that will show up every day. I really don't know what to think. Seen both sides of the coin, and there is a vast population of turds out there who are somehow fine with working 20 out of 40 hours a week, randomly, and getting fired.
Also our country has grown accustomed to getting an economic free lunch from foreign labor. An iPhone should cost $2000+ without Foxconn. Then again, outsourcing and illegals depress wage growth as Unknownsailor pointed out.
Part of what irks me is that we have Visas for agricultural workers (which have far lower standards than other forms of immigration), and they still don't go through the proper channels.
So even if Americans don't want the jobs, the jobs can still be filled by foreign labor, but they're all wising up to the fact that you can just enter the country illegally and not have to worry.
I've talked to farmers and they swear up and down that illegals are necessary for their business and Americans won't do the work no matter how much you pay them. It's very annoying.
I wonder how much there is to that, though. Basic economics says you'll get employees at a certain price point, but if the culture is bankrupt then there is a hard cap on the number of reliable American workers that will show up every day. I really don't know what to think. Seen both sides of the coin, and there is a vast population of turds out there who are somehow fine with working 20 out of 40 hours a week, randomly, and getting fired.
Also our country has grown accustomed to getting an economic free lunch from foreign labor. An iPhone should cost $2000+ without Foxconn. Then again, outsourcing and illegals depress wage growth as Unknownsailor pointed out.
Part of what irks me is that we have Visas for agricultural workers (which have far lower standards than other forms of immigration), and they still don't go through the proper channels.
So even if Americans don't want the jobs, the jobs can still be filled by foreign labor, but they're all wising up to the fact that you can just enter the country illegally and not have to worry.