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hogwash... other than the last point which is not only what we already stated 'bove, but has repeated ad nauseum-- legal ≠ right. however, "the first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" state of nature don't have laws and that is where those with power is able to most egregious exploit the weak. sure, the rich is best positioned to exploit law, but too many people have the situation reversed. is not the powerful who need law but rather is the weak. legal is indeed often an excuse for cowardly exploitation, but absence o' law makes such exploitation assured save in extreme small scale scenarios such as family and tribal. am also observing how the US has most prospered as we get further removed from a reliance on cheap labor. is bass ackwards and self defeating that we still rely so much on many kinds o' labor as automation shoulda' replaced most such jobs by now. tell 1980s Gromnir we would still have living people working in US auto factories in 2025 other than to maintain the robots and we woulda handed you a copy o' megatrends. this country, and most western economies, has prospered as they moved towards high skilled and service-based. counter-intuitive, as "labor" needs has become increasing expensive, American fortunes has accelerated. also, the recent dock worker strike where the union strong-armed management into promising to not implement automation were in addition to being luddite asinine, it went a long way towards undermining the "exploitation" narrative. is a relative small % o' the US economy which genuine requires cheap labor, but that small % is nevertheless vital. am not suggesting amazon treats its workers fair or that manufacturing management in general isn't trying to maximize their quarterly report earnings by cutting corners, but some schnook who read marx for the first time in 2020 is in for rude reality shocks and the world economy ain't what it was... and never will be again. we worked roofing in the early 90s and back then there were white guys on the roof with us. today? even so, is many important jobs which functional require illegal immigrants, 'cause is no way to keep numerous industries running without people doing jobs americans simply will not do. food processing. residential construction. agriculture. etc. and yeah, tiny screw jobs need cheap foreign labor... and the 2025 US don't even have the capacity to do such jobs regardless o' a dollar amount, which is why the US shoulda' subsidized apple to develop such infrastructure in mexico instead o' china. if the US had spent money on developing mexico in partnership with companies like apple and others who instead spent money in china, many o' today's problems wouldn't exist... including the immigration issues. regardless, *insert eye roll here* should add to our bruce, sharp_one, comrade yellow, dark priest and lexx list. HA! Good Fun! ps if it makes you feel better, in ten years when the china labor/population situation gets real for people, am suspecting the global economy is in for some rough times, and unskilled/low-skilled labor is sudden gonna be in a historic strong position if only temporarily. so, huzzah! maybe in a decade the workers o' the world will finally have a chance to unite, but we wouldn't count on it even then as the demand for automation and ai will finally overcome to perpetual stoopid which is the nostalgia fantasy o' the highly paid US (or any other western economy) factory worker.