[clawrence3]

I'm an American, and I don't mind - would the following be better: "do jobs that Americans won't do for that wage"?

[NJ_gent]

"would the following be better: "do jobs that Americans won't do for that wage"?"

A bit better, but that isn't what he's saying. That also implies that we'll get off our lazy arses if we're paid a king's ransom, which just isn't the case. What it comes down to is that uses of cheap labor are essentially hanging on to a system of modern-day slavery. The new way of thinking is that if you get people who are poor enough to come to you, you don't have to purchase them, you don't have to pay for overseers, you don't have to house them, and you can just split up that money among them to keep them working. In other words, it's not much different from African slaves picking cotton; the monetary distribution's just a little different.

That doesn't make it right.