Steve Sailer makes a good point. Even when I was younger, working in a meat processing plant was a well paying job. Now it's almost 100% illegal or migrant workers and considered 'below American work' by many.

He's right. Most Americans won't work for even $12/hr if it's manual labor. We're having problems finding people to work on our landscape crews currently and the ones that do bitch about the pay or half-ass their work.