Reply #43: The day laborers are often hired for next to nothing

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by a middle man who makes a hefty profit. Let's say you want a new roof on your house. You hire a contractor who then hires day laborers and pays them piddly wages out of what he charges you for your roof. You are happy because you get a good deal on a new roof. But maybe you don't realize how little the workers are being paid. I think this is exploiting labor, even though it is on a smaller scale than what a corporation like WalMart does. You aren't guilty of course but that roofing contractor should be forced to pay his workers a decent wage.

So do we force higher wages through legislation? I honestly don't know what the answer is but when honest contractors are forced out of business by competition from other contractors who exploit the day laborers we have a problem that goes well beyond merely exploiting labor (as if that wasn't bad enough).