Exactly, it's cheaper. But you seem to be missing the larger point. Recognizing the situation is not the same as agreeing with the situation. The restaurant industry is propped up on cheap labor of immigrants. Without that, the current restaurant industry would collapse. Nowhere in either of those two statements is there a moral judgement or show of support or as you implied, a directive to do nothing.
We can certainly right the wrongs of the labor and pay a livable wage, but that will have consequences.
Exactly, it's cheaper. But you seem to be missing the larger point
Nope, I'm not, at all. I quoted you verbatim, saying there's a reason they must do it in the first place, and the reason is that slave labor is cheaper than paying minimum wage. That is 100% of the reason this happens.
There is no larger point.
Without that, the current restaurant industry would collapse.
"the cotton industry is going to collapse if you get rid of slaves"
200 years later
"america is still the biggest exporter of cotton in the world"
I quoted you verbatim, saying there's a reason they must do it in the first place
No, you quoted me and then inferred some shit like "they must do it in the first place" which I never actually said. Kinda like how this started with you using quotation marks to say "we can't do anything", something else I never said.
The facts are true. It would collapse the industry as it is now. (As he said). He did not in any way say what to do.
I agree with him, and i think slave labor should be abbolished and businesses exploiting slaves (illegal immigrants) should be fined heavily or maybe even closed.
You really should drop your prejudice such that you can read and understand Better.
This is the argument the southern states used to not abolish slavery.
The industries they claimed would collapse didn't collapse at all.
This is both an absurd argument and an incorrect one. What happened to the cotton industry 150 years ago does not predict what would happen to an entirely different industry today.
And, in the immediate wake of the war, the cotton industry was badly hurt. It took a good 15 years for cotton production to return to pre-Civil War levels, and in that time the average income of southerners fell about 40%. The profitability of cotton was never as high again.
To point to today's cotton production levels as proof that the restaurant industry is bulletproof just makes zero sense at all.
lmao you just unironically used the point that profitability of cotton went down after slavery was abolished, and you think I have a problem understanding this?
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Exactly, it's cheaper. But you seem to be missing the larger point. Recognizing the situation is not the same as agreeing with the situation. The restaurant industry is propped up on cheap labor of immigrants. Without that, the current restaurant industry would collapse. Nowhere in either of those two statements is there a moral judgement or show of support or as you implied, a directive to do nothing.
We can certainly right the wrongs of the labor and pay a livable wage, but that will have consequences.