I’m also not a proctologist, but I see you are a perfect asshole.

You observe, but you cannot think, therefore you are useless.

Shorter version: Global warming + corrupt governments = displaced, injured, and dead people.

Observer:
I hope one of these so-called “criminals” serves you unsanitary water while performing an underpaid job that you’re “too good for.” And then steals your place in line at the ER getting free medical treatment living off of your hard-earned tax dollar.

Please leave this thread and fall off a building.

Love,
Dr. Granger

Nobody blames free markets per se. Free markets are a tool, an extremely useful tool, one which helps foster free societies and produces great wealth.

But they are just that - a tool. Not a god.

I, for one, don’t rail against free markets. I rail against the worship of free markets.

Kiernan– Empirically, that’s false. If Mexican immigrants were in fact exploited, then they wouldn’t come here to work. Rather, they can illegally take jobs, then impose the costs on Americans as externalities. It is a variant of the free rider/tragedy of the commons problem.

Because of course it is impossible to even consider that working long hours for bellow minimum wage with no job security or benefits in potentially unsafe conditions in the U.S. might be a preferable option, while still exploitative, than barely scraping out a marginal existence in one of the slums ringing Mexico’s major cities.

Of course neither does it bear on this choice between bad and worse the effects of NAFTA in destroying the livelihoods of a vast number of peasant and semi-peasant agricultural producers in southern Mexico and the subsequent flood of rural outmigration into an urbanized Mexican economy well and truly unable to absorb the influx…

As an aside, Canada has pledged $500k, and will provide experts if requested, which while rather low, comes from a country with roughly 10% of the population of the US…

Uhhh, no. Floods like this overwhelm sanitation facilities and sometimes hydraulically exhume buried corpses. Whatever water there is to drink has not gone through normal purification processes. To note that disease outbreaks are possible is neither racist (anybody can get sick) nor scare-mongering.

Notwithstanding your complete lack of familiarity with the long and well documented history of associating disease with immigrants in racist anti-immigrant rhetoric, it bears asking why there is such a consistency in using the language of a feared outbreak of disease amongst Mexicans rather than using the usual discussion of water treatment and contaminated water…

I know how the free market is supposed to work in theory: workers trade their labor to employers in exchange for compensation. Wages should go up and down depending on how many workers are available to do a particular job. In theory, if an employer has a hard time finding workers for a particular job at a specific wage, the wage for that job should rise until it gets to a level that someone will freely accept the job.

However, that’s not how our “free market” works. Right now, our “free market” keeps wages at an artificially low level by bringing in people who will work for sub-minimum wages at levels that free workers can’t afford to accept.

The free market is a very nice theory, as long as everyone on both sides plays fair. That ain’t what’s happening in our “free market,” though.