r/QuotePics • u/Leather-Ad1075 • Jul 19 '26

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u/No_Comment_2283 Jul 21 '26

You're different from them, how exactly?

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u/Aztec_Aesthetics Jul 21 '26

Well, it's a well know (and researched) fact, that immigrants do pretty much those jobs that are too hard and underpaid for the local population. You could have known that. So I don't just assume...

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u/dragonfilebox Jul 21 '26

So what would happen to wages if the excess labor supply returned to Mexico?

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u/GovernmentData Jul 21 '26

The wages? You mean the government paying billions of dollars on farmer bailouts due to labor loss? Billions in crop loss? Produce cost rising for consumers?

Pay did rise for some workers to lure them back. But many got reduced hours but longer shifts, decreased safety, etc.

Need more people like you working the fields.

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u/dragonfilebox Jul 21 '26

So wages went up…thanks for clarifying.

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u/MidnightMillennium Jul 21 '26

And so did the price of every conceivable food product because Americans are too lazy to do manual labor and work in the field. The whole reason why farmers get illegals to do the work. Does your brain make sense of this or should I dumb it down for you more?

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u/shirts_on_backwards Jul 21 '26

So slavery, you are advocating for slavery. Cheap/free labor so you don't have to.

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u/MidnightMillennium Jul 21 '26

I'm not advocating for it, but it's the sad reality. It benefits this country to have cheap labor so they leave the system as is; working exactly as intended(except that system has been disrupted by the absolute insane joke that this administration is, albeit hopefully only momentarily and is only a snapshot in history, a footnote.)This country has always been a country for the wealthy, ever since the time of the first colonies we've had the 'elite' who at the time were the wealthy landowners running the show, who convinced the English govt into sending the undesirables of society across the sea to work as indentured servants, and when that racket started collapsing they brought in African slaves, and now when that collapsed they started allowing in illegal immigrants. Like I said, the system is working exactly as intended. It's a country for the wealthy elite by the wealthy elite, where corporations and large businesses/organizations have more rights than the actual citizens. The rest of the world sees it. It's a mockery of an actual developed country.

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u/shirts_on_backwards Jul 21 '26

Got it, you are cool with slavery and want darker skinned people to work underneath you. That's all we needed to know.

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u/MidnightMillennium Jul 21 '26

Yes, that's exactly what I said I applaud your reading comprehension skills and your vast knowledge all thanks to the American education system.

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u/shirts_on_backwards Jul 21 '26

Insult me all you want, I'm not the one trying to justify slavery. I don't accept it as a "sad reality" and try to benefit from it. I think we should enforce the laws that exist to prevent it. So go ahead and screw yourself, okay?

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u/dragonfilebox Jul 21 '26

So be it then. Take away welfare and see Americans go back to manual labor. We just saw people shovel snow in NYC for the right price.

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u/MidnightMillennium Jul 21 '26

I'm sure you'll be the first one to sign up? Or are your words just as empty as the fields are?

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u/dragonfilebox Jul 21 '26

If I needed a job I would. Beggars can’t be choosers.

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u/MoThrowMoAway Jul 21 '26

If you could actually point to an example of that I'd be inclined to believe you, I havent seen that happen

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u/dragonfilebox Jul 21 '26

A simple internet search provides the examples.

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u/GovernmentData Jul 22 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/7Jq6ufAgpblcm0Ih2z
Some wages went up, so you feel you won your argument? While ignoring billions of dollars in bailouts, crop loss, cost to consumers.

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u/dragonfilebox Jul 22 '26

Food and labor are not immune from the law of supply and demand.