On that whole “they only take jobs we don’t want” tip: I think it’s 90% true. Fruit picking? You won’t see white Americans doing that work, ever, no matter what comes. It will be roboticized first.
But things do happen in that other 10%. Sometimes I think there are a bunch of Jethros sitting around who would in fact like to have a business mowing peoples’ lawns. Jethro would like this because he has the brain capacity of a vole but wants to earn money, and he knows how to push a mower. Thing is, Jethro wants to charge about 4x the going rate for lawn mowing in his area to support his child support payments and alcoholism, but he can’t because Mexican immigrants are willing to work harder for less. Instead of using his massive advantages and privileges to skill up to an appropriately paying job that they aren’t able to compete with him for, Jethro just wants the military to cleanse the immigrants from the land.
That’s the sad part: some native born Americans actually do want these jobs.
On that whole “they only take jobs we don’t want” tip: I think it’s 90% true. Fruit picking? You won’t see white Americans doing that work, ever, no matter what comes. It will be roboticized first.
But things do happen in that other 10%. Sometimes I think there are a bunch of Jethros sitting around who would in fact like to have a business mowing peoples’ lawns. Jethro would like this because he has the brain capacity of a vole but wants to earn money, and he knows how to push a mower. Thing is, Jethro wants to charge about 4x the going rate for lawn mowing in his area to support his child support payments and alcoholism, but he can’t because Mexican immigrants are willing to work harder for less. Instead of using his massive advantages and privileges to skill up to an appropriately paying job that they aren’t able to compete with him for, Jethro just wants the military to cleanse the immigrants from the land.
That’s the sad part: some native born Americans actually do want these jobs.
what am i, chopped meat? wait, don’t answer that. i picked berries up in oregon when we didn’t have other farm work to do
I intended no disrespect to your work history or your whiteness!
or my chopped uppedness don’t forget that neither i am in a huff :3
those were good berries too. i gotta wait a month and a half before my berry bush is ready.