1 Sep 2022 9:52 am
You are correct to an extent. If you are competing directly with illegals (and the industries you named are flooded with them) then you are being harmed directly through excess supply in a competitive labor market. However, for the nation as a whole it is actually a small economic benefit due to the fact prices for the products they produce are lower to an even greater extent than the wages they are paid. So for every dollar lost to a legal worker (say a roofer) there are more dollars saved when I go to purchase a house.GHETTOBLASTER » 01 Sep 2022, 12:53 am » wrote: ↑ Every electrical, plumbing, roofing, sheet rocking, painting, welding, pool cleaning, truck driving, etc. job they do takes work away from legitimate taxpaying US Citizens and the work they do for less money harms the prevailing wage structure for the entire region.
Don't get me wrong, I do feel for the legal worker who has to compete with them. But my point was, as a whole they don't hurt the economy. As a hypothetical, if 1.4 billion Chinese agreed to come to America and work for 10 cents an hour what would be the effect. I would hire one for $1 to work 10 hours a day manicuring my lawn. Another cute little Asian girl to massage my back for an hour. Another for 40 cents a day to clean my house and cook. Even the food I eat would be grown by this army of 0.10/hour workers. I could fund every aspect and need in my life working 10 minutes a day at a different profession. My standard of living would be immensely improved.
Now I hear you saying, but where would you work for 10 minutes. The answer is, there is ALWAYS more work to be done. There is actually no such thing as a lack of work. If I work on my yard or do home improvement tasks, can I ever say I am truly done? Of course not. There are always improvements which could be made. The question becomes are these envisioned improvements worth the continued expenditure of my labor?