There is a point to actually paying MORE for tough menial labor. A lot of jobs get more $ because they are a risk to the worker. What if you paid American kids a bit more to pick crops? I think they’d appreciate higher positions and what you need to do to get them after some time spent in a field.
All good points, but those are precisely the jobs that are most likely to be lost to automation if the wages are high.
Yes, well the treason lobby found out years ago that if they targeted menial jobs no one would defend Americans doing those jobs (”Jobs Americans Won’t Do Anymore”- Dubya).
So they flooded industries like construction and janitorial and food processing with illegal aliens. Food processing used to provide income to Americans in rural America, but IBP and Tyson and other giants took care of that inconvenience to the bottom line. And like I do, you know perfectly well what happened to all jobs that used to be taken by American teenagers here in SoCal.