Business owners over the ages have shown a remarkable ability to adjust to changing labor situations, and they will continue to do so. If farm help and summer help at resorts gets harder to find the old ways because of reduced legal or illegal immigration, the farmers and resort owners will find other ways to staff their work. The real difficulty, as in any business situation, is change and uncertainty.
Many who were used to being considered higher in the social hierarchy of the past with the perks which came with it…including highly paid jobs requiring only an average/mediocre HS diploma or just a year or two of HS* and finding themselves struggling because of social leveling effects of the Civil Rights/Anti-discrimination policies against EEOC protected groups or economic changes(other countries becoming much more economically competitive, loss of manufacturing jobs in the rust belts, etc) usually find it’s much easier to scapegoat even more marginalized individuals to assuage their pains and avoid self-reflection.
Saw far too many town locals in my rural NE Ohio college town area with such attitudes during my undergrad years in the '90s. Worse, many of those pining for the lost factory jobs and blaming “minorities” and “welfare queens” weren’t actually old enough to have actually worked in them before they were shut down in that area sometime in the '70s.
- There was strong discouragement of racial minorities from applying for or to work those jobs which meant such jobs were defacto Whites only for the most part even when there was no official law/policies to that effect.
We’re fooling ourselves if we don’t acknowledge this was ALWAYS a part of our culture.