[quote=dumbrenter]Maybe if their employer paid 25% more, they’d buy more Tequila or bling or send some via western union back home. What makes you think they will move out to say 8/farmhouse just because the wages went up?[/quote]
Because I think they’re probably just like you and me. If they’re married with children, they want a home with their spouse and kids, not a farmhouse with 8 other people they didn’t know from adam’s cat when they moved in. If they’re single and over 25, they probably don’t want to live with more than a single roommate or two. If they’re immigrants, I doubt they moved here to live in similar conditions as where they came from, but better. Would you buy bling and tequila with your 25% raise? That would never be on my radar. Why would you even consider that an option for these workers?
