Not to worry, migrant labour will be replaced by prison labour. In fact, the prison work force will expand substantially.
But thanks to Reaganomics, prison turned to profits
'Cause free labor’s the cornerstone of US economics
'Cause slavery was abolished, unless you are in prison
You think I am bullshittin’, then read the 13th Amendment
Involuntary servitude and slavery it prohibits
That’s why they givin’ drug offenders time in double digits
Killer Mike - Reagan
Everybody should listen to Run the Jewels. Everyone should really hear the lyrics. That music should change the world. Plus it’s fucking awesome.
And the crowd says
RTJ!
👊👈
I listen to this song on a loop every time I stand in line to vote. Both major elections and midterms.
And hey, bonus - prison labor is basically free !
Hey man, it’s not free. Those private prisons owners cost money and it’s our duty as tax payers to make sure they can buy that 5th house.
I find it funny that corporations can openly talk about hiring illegal immigrants and nobody cares… Like isn’t that also illegal?
I bet if the government made hiring an illegal immigrant a felony and the owner of the company would face jail time, then things would change very quickly.
Everyone blames the immigrant for their troubles, not the industries that hire immigrants for cheap despite it being illegal. Capitalism and racism are the backbone of America.
YES—I’ve been saying this for years! If any politician actually believed any of the bullshit they say about illegal immigrants stealing jobs and ruining industries, they could instantly stop it by placing heavy fines on employers who are caught hiring them. There is no penalty big enough to block out the giant glowing neon “help wanted!” sign on the US side of its southern border. Politicians would rather spend millions breaking up families, and imprisoning children than slap a fat fine on some construction and agriculture companies.
The corporations like it that way: disempowered workers in a precarious situation who can be deported at any time, creating golden opportunities for wage theft and union-busting.
They’d need to make executives personally liable for crimes they commit as representatives of the company. But that’s highly unlikely to ever happen. Otherwise, the fines will always be less than the money saved by committing the crime and the crimes boost profits in the short term which is more important for publicly traded companies than a future potential fine no matter how much it is, unless it’s truly devastating, which will also never happen due to the cost of litigating.
Then they’d just appoint fall guys and remove them the second they disobeyed.
Abolish the corporate veil; hold shareholders liable for the crimes they pay people to commit. Yes I’m aware why it exists, and that can be solved with liability insurance without imposing external costs on everyone else.
Not just executives, more importantly shareholders. The people that own the company should be liable.
This is not the right argument to be making. We shouldn’t be normalizing the exploitation of a underclass of people for the enrichment of law-breaking business owners.
It sucks but its also how the sausage is made at present.
I strongly disagree. This is the rightward ratchet that led us to Trump and will lead to worse. Haven’t we all seen by now how lesser-evilism is a failed strategy?
Embracing neoliberalism even harder will only embolden the abusive class and it doesn’t have the popular support.
I have family members a couple generations back who were builders and roofers and made a good living at it. They were US-born citizens and could support a family on that job. Other families could afford to afford to hire them to work on their houses.
The lie that there are “jobs that Americans won’t do” or that we can’t afford to pay Americans to do is historical revisionism and is only coming true because we keep basing every decision on how to make our ultra-wealthy abusers even richer. We can do better than this.
The lie that there are “jobs that Americans won’t do” or that we can’t afford to pay Americans to do is historical revisionism and is only coming true because we keep basing every decision on how to make our ultra-wealthy abusers even richer. We can do better than this.
The “jobs Americans won’t do” is acknowledging the current situation, not a comment on whether it was always true. In fact, it could also be said as “jobs Americans won’t do any longer because they are underpaid and only immigrants will accept the pay”.
True, but by accepting that the chosen argument against mass deportation is that our economy depends on having illegals to exploit, we’re normalizing the situation instead of working toward a better economic reality.
I get that the argument is supposed to appeal to the right wing types in order to shift their actions away from mass deportation. My argument is that ratcheting to the right this way won’t actually resonate with them in an effective way (their blue collar ancestors also raised families on these jobs and they see the immigrants as “stealing” the jobs), but will also shift the thinking of the left wing crowd toward an expectation that the permanence of our current situation is a fait accompli.
This is not only an ineffective argument, it’s a damaging one in the long term.
I get that the argument is supposed to appeal to the right wing types in order to shift their actions away from mass deportation.
It is a statement about the short term impacts of mass deportation by removing the majority of people that do a certain type of work that has nobody waiting to fill the positions. It is actually contradicting the right wing talking point that immigrants are stealing jobs from citizens, by pointing out that they aren’t stealing jobs from anyone.
this is a facile childs argument, no, not at present, we obviously can’t do “better than this”, “we” couldn’t even hold the line to keep the fascists from taking power again, after every failure from trumps first bite at the apple, and every open threat coming into this next one. we need less dreamers, and more pragmatic political realists.
I guess, man. We’ve been playing your realpolitik strategy game for the last few decades and here we are. My strategy didn’t involve electing Trump yet again…
The last president we had that appealed to “dreamers” was Obama, who had two terms and got some stuff accomplished. Since then, we’ve had a set of “pragmatic” choices who have outright lost or at least failed to keep the fascists out: Clinton, Biden, and now Harris. Should we stick with the “pragmatic” route in hopes that it starts making returns someday?
I don’t know, it doesn’t sound like so much of a lie as the truth.
The reality is that America only works by exploiting illegals.
If we magic wand illegals into citizens everything will explode in cost and then the government will try and spend their way out of the economic disaster, creating massive inflation.
If we magic wand illegals out of the country everything will explode in cost and then the government will try and spend their way out of an economic disaster while the foundation of our economy collapses, with runaway inflation.
Over the past decades we could have eased into an economy that isn’t dependant on illegal exploitation, but that would have hurt profits, and we can’t be having that.
Capitalism only functions when labor is taken advantage of. Matter and Energy are neither created nor destroyed, they only take on different forms.
Stealing this saying. Quotable.
hahahahahahahahahaha they just now figured this out, it’s ok though, trump will create a cuttout in the “law” for his MAGAt buddies in Texas
Why would he? He already got what he wanted out of them.
Considering most of the people involved in said industry probably voted for Trump, I decidedly don’t care. Face, meet leopards.
Shocked Pikachu
I hope they suffer and crumble. It will be HILARIOUS! I’m all done giving a fuck what the collateral damage is. Hey, any construction companies that don’t use slave labor, get those contracts ready and add some zeros!
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I think you dropped this:
/sSarcasm?
