Treason Season??

[hazard]

I am going to try and take these in order.
Norgarth: yes, as have i, maybe I didn't word the statement concisely enough and maybe I should have put the physical break of a line between those points. The I WANT mentality exists across all barriers save one, the willingness to work for it.

Epsilon: I don't hate capitalism, what I PREFER is that companies hire local labor at reasonable wages so that their local communities are reinvested in instead of the gin owners being able to buy a new pickup truck for themselves and the wife a new Mercedes sedan every season.

Rob: the wall will at best decrease the available labor pool forcing employers to hire more locals. The price of cotton will go up by weight as a result, but not an unreasonable amount.

Hazard, the cost of using US born workers would be acceptable to the paying public because the money would be going back into local economies.

The use of prisoners for labor is tightly constrained depending on what state you are in and mostly limited to roadside and forestry work. The old "making license plates" trope was something from the 40s and 50s and prisoners are not allowed into public businesses as they are required to be under constant supervision.

Edit:
And sometimes the answer to a complex problem Silverfang is to realize that it isn't as complex as you want to think they are. Simple answers are best because they are easy to keep to

Oh you sweet summer child.

The paying public gives not a single thought about who made it. Who made it is irrelevant to their decision making. What they care about is their money, in no small part because that is what is advertised most loudly on the tag.

And trust me, the private prisons would happily buy vast swathes of land to be worked by chain gangs if they believed it'd be profitable and law permitted it. In fact, IIRC there are prisons in the South of the USA actively fielding chain gangs to pick cotton.


And I've got a simple answer for you for the South American refugee crisis the USA has to deal with right now. Start restricting the sale of guns and ammunition in the USA. Seriously. The USA has become one of if not outright the biggest suppliers of the guns those South American gangs Trump and other right wingers like to rail against, and those gangs and the cheap guns and munitions they can get (often through intermediaries) right from the USA are what's providing everything the gangs need for the violence they work in. And that violence is what drives the caravans towards the north.