• norbert@kbin.social
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    A lot of people have absolutely no idea just how much of their food and housing is so cheap because of (often undocumented) immigrant laborers.

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      8 months ago

      Food, yes. But housing? How do you figure?

      Also, lol at calling housing “cheap”.

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        8 months ago

        Every contractor out there uses undocumented labor. Drywall, roofing, landscaping, all skyrocket in price without the labor of immigrants.

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          The industry I work in "flooring " hope you don’t want carpet or floors install in your homes. Because 99% of the labor done by illegal immigrants.

          They are responsible for all the apartments in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area I know for a fact.

          And the reason they only ones doing it because what I been told by few older contractors is pricing for carpet installers hasn’t changed since the fucking 1990’s.

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          8 months ago

          That’s true. But you’re wrong about calling housing “cheap”, unless you’re in “flyover country”.

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            Cheap is subjective but if it makes you feel better to say “you’re wrong” then OK, thanks for contributing.

            It would be more expensive without undocumented labor.

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                Someone feels the need to jump into conversations to try to correct subjective statements while actually contributing nothing to the conversation. They should’ve began their statement with “well akshully!”

                “Whatever.”