BOURDAIN's stunning love letter to Mexico and Mexicans

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39. Actually I do hire people who cost me more.

I run an organic farm and never hire the inexpensive illegal immigrant labor. I pay top wages for my farm hands. If I have to make a living off of under-paying the people who help me than I'm NOT a very good manager. I want to make a living and be fair and honest. And I do have people who are of Mexican descent working for me, but they are immigrants who have their American citizenship and they are paid as much as everyone else.

The moment those wonderfully hard-working people stand up and demand to be paid what they are truly worth, is the moment when a lot of people like Anthony will suddenly think they are lazy and bad workers. Do you see Anthony advocating for a fair wage, even for illegal immigrants? Do you see him standing up and saying these people I so like to hire should be paid a fair and livable wage? NO, because he's all about making a buck off of cheap, cheap labor just like Wally World and McDonalds.

NO One has a right to cheap labor. If the only way you can make a profit is by paying low, low wages, than you are a really bad business person.

I use to work in Florida picking flowers and tomatoes alongside illegal workers. I vowed that when I had my own farm, I would never treat people like that.

By the way Anthony himself said he liked the Mexican worker because he could pay him less. He said words to the affect that no one in the restaurant business can make a living by paying their help minimum wage or better. They say the same thing about running a farm but I manage to make a living.