It's implying but not stating what old-school racists used to come out and say - immigrants being "advantaged" bc they don't "need" space
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In ye olden days ppl thought Chinese immigrants naturally enjoyed being bunked six to a room, instead of just having to accept it
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Like seriously you can go to visit old Gold Rush mining camps "These barracks were designed to sleep 16 white workers apiece, or 48 Chinese"
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Have you ever visited the tourism center for the big borax pit in Death Valley? That's a trip
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It was where the Chinese immigrants went after the Gold Rush was over - a much less profitable mine in a much worse location
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It was my favorite stop on our family West Coast National Park trip bc I enjoy cynical history facts much more than I enjoy nature
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Death Valley in the summer is the worst place in the world and mining borax one of the worst jobs in the world
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That tourism center is a little historical snapshot of hell
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They straight up tell you the "economic miracle" of the borax mines was finding those deposits at a time w very cheap surplus labor
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When Chinese immigrants (who were, essentially, victims of debt-based human trafficking) were cheap to hire and replace when they died off
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And willing to do jobs that even poor and desperate white workers refused to do en masse
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In previous eras it had been known there were borate deposits only reachable w underground tunnel mining, but who would agree to do that
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To keep in mind w "model minority" bs - "200 years ago we weren't 'natural' engineers or scientists, we were disposable ore hauling units"
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