Cheap labor is why the South didn’t industrialize and why they lost the Civil War.
Cheap labor in our farming culture today has inhibited innovations in farming - - other countries are making. Grape picking machines etc innovating while we’re hiring illegals. Like all toxic incentives, cheap labor works in the short run and fails countries in the long run.
That said, we can be thankful cheap labor crippled the South or we might not have won the civil war against them,...