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Originally Posted by AmateurFlix
KRL people work in alot of places that have terrible working conditions. A 'sweat shop' would almost certainly be more pleasant than the foundries and steel mills in this area that people work (and sometimes die) at. Not only are they willing to work under poor conditions - I've been inside some of them when I used to do contracting work and I've seen how miserable it is - but many of them actually consider themselves lucky to get a job in places like that and try to get as much overtime pay as possible.
Travel further south and you would find yourself in an area where many people hope to get the 'opportunity' to work in a coal mine.
The idea that jobs would go unfilled because americans are too lazy or unwilling or something is just invalid IMO.
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You are 100% correct. People who say otherwise have no idea on what they're talking about.
I've seen it at every commercial construction site I have ever worked on. I've also seen it when I was a machine technician working in various lumber mills.
The companies who do this usually do it out of greed. The people who benifit from this desire to make extra cash on top of their usual 6-7 figure salaries.
Usually they hire a van full of illegal mexicans whom all live together piled up in some small house.
The illegal worker usually sends the money back to his/her family in Mexico where it goes alot further.
So unless the american worker plans on relocating his family to Mexico and shacking up in the States with 8 co-workers in the same house he can't compete.