This scarcity of serfs made for a better bargaining position.
It’s pretty straight forward - one needs servants and farm workers for the estate and they’ve become damned hard to find - we have to offer the bastards more money and benefits!
But in these sophisticated times, the yearly influx of illegals into the work force is said to have no negative effect on the lower classes. After all, "they do the work that american citizens won’t." (But that’s only true because american citizens won’t work for such a low wage until they have to!)
In the end it’s apparently more important that the upper classes (including you and I), have a delightful range of exotic foodstuffs and cheap domestic labor.
The only plus I can see in allowing such an influx of cheap labor is that they’ll eventually be contributing to the SS fund to keep me fed and under a roof.
Hopefully there’ll be no racist backlash when the younger majority - people of color - realize they’re giving up a large percentage of their wages to take care of the older minority - white baby boomers.
