DISQUS

EdWonk · 3 years ago

You are, of course, correct. But on the other hand, if only LEGAL immigrants and citizens were permitted to obtain these jobs, would not the wages paid to workers also rise due to increased demand?

In this country we've been focused on "supply side" economics for so long that we've forgotten the "other side of the coin"- labor.

When a job is so undesirable that folks won't do it for the wages offered, then the wages must increase.

Higher wages for honest work leads to a better standard of living.

The laws of supply and demand should be allowed to work for labor, as the government allows it to work for capital.

For capitalism to fly, it needs both wings; capital and labor.

Personally, I don't mind paying a few cents more for my strawberries if it means that the men and women who pick them also get paid a living wage.

Alexander Plank · 3 years ago

Great post and great pictures! Who took those photographs?

drumsnwhistles · 3 years ago

EdWonk:

If these workers COULD be legal, don't you think they would be? The process is incredibly difficult, nearly impossible to navigate. Let's start with that and move ahead from there to the issues of paying them more, which is absolutely necessary.

Alexander:

Thank you! I took both of them yesterday.

DnW

Andy · 3 years ago

It's nice to read a positive blog on this issue. Most of the things I read are not only exaggerating the impact illegal immigration has on wages without taking into account how many higher paying jobs it creates for the greater, educated public, but they are also quite unwilling to see things from another perspective.

nice pics btw.

drumsnwhistles · 3 years ago

Andy,

Thank you!

DnW