Comment on NYC Pays Over $300 a Night for Budget Hotel Rooms for Migrants

• Blamemeta@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They hire children because they’re cheap and abusable. They need to pay more.

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  • chulo_sinhatche@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That sounds like an abuse of power by the employer. I would rather adults work those jobs.

    If the business can’t afford to pay adults a livable wage the way they operate, it doesn’t sound like they should be in business.

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    • Blamemeta@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Exactly! Thank you, someone with common sense!

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      • PizzaMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m honestly shocked to see this take here. Shocked but glad.

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• wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s the problem. There are many Americans who can pick vegetables but lack the work ethic to pick vegetables. We shouldn’t import people because other people are lazy.

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  • chulo_sinhatche@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Unemployment is at 3.8%, which is pretty good as most economist say < 5% is the bar for a healthy economy. So I would say it’s not that people are lazy, it’s that new industries that provide more economic opportunities appear.

    Also, short of economic depression, I’m not sure how you convince lazy people to not be lazy.

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    • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Unemployment is a fickle number. If somebody is not looking for work, they don’t count.

      I always joke with my GF when we pay to pick vegetables. We are paying to do work that people won’t do to get paid.

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      • chulo_sinhatche@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yup. The irony of paying to pick apples is not lost on me. But to your point, if someone’s not looking for work, they don’t get government assistance (barring a disability) and probably don’t need to work the jobs thes migrants are going to fill.

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    • jimbolauski@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Also, short of economic depression, I’m not sure how you convince lazy people to not be lazy.

      The USSR’s solution was forced work.

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      • chulo_sinhatche@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah they are not really a good standard in my opinion.

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• ArtemZ@nowoke.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I submitted applications to all restoraunts around me and never heard back. Just lies.

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  • chulo_sinhatche@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m sorry you’re struggling and I’m not going to debate your job search with you without knowing where you looked and what positions you applied for. It also sounds like I’m not going to convince you no matter what I say.

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