The Economics of Undocumented Labor, Scott’s Plans for SXSW, and Should Parents Leave the U.S.?

When the political winds change, will there be accountability for those who bent the knee for the Trump administration? If these corporations think that the Democrats, when they come back in power, are gonna play by the old rules and say, oh, never mind. We'll we'll forgive you. I think they've got another thing coming. I'm Preet Bharara. And this week, ambassador Susan Rice joins me to discuss leadership, decision making, and the state of the rule of law in America. The episode is out now. Search and follow Stay Tuned with Preet wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to Office Hours with Prop g. This is the part of the show where we answer your questions about business, big tech entrepreneurship, and whatever else is on your mind. If you'd like to submit a question for next time, you can send a voice recording to officehours@propgmedia.com. Again, that's office hours hours of prop gen media dot com. Or post your question on the Scott Galloway subreddit, and we just might feature it in our next episode. First question. Our first question comes from Nicole Blevins on Instagram. They say, why isn't Trump targeting companies and CEOs that profit off of the undocumented? Well, because we don't wanna go after those nice white people. Yeah. It's a fair question. And it's if you were serious about immigration, it'd be pretty easy. You'd put in play some sort of what do they call it? Biometric screening, and it's pretty easy. You show up to a Chipotle, and if more than for every person there that's not a documented worker, we find you a thousand dollars a day, and we do random audits. And we find the corporation. We find the construction. We find the we find the contractor. We find the fast food establishment. There's something I supposedly, 24% of people working in fast food now are undocumented workers. If you started finding McDonald's a million dollars a day until it went down to 1%, they would figure it out. And by the way, these people would self deport. They're not here. They're not here to go to Denver Broncos games or to go to In N Out Burger. They're here to make money. If they can't make money or find jobs, they will melt back and self deport. But, no, we'd rather terrorize them, demonize them instead of going after the people. It's a demand problem, not a supply problem in the sense that if the demand goes away, they'll go away. They'll self deport. So your your question is the correct one. Unauthorized immigrants made up about 6% of The US workforce in 2023, a record share, and that share is higher than their share of the total population. According to Pew, construction is 15% of the workforce who are unauthorized immigrants. So someone who's constantly renovating houses, I can tell you no domestically born professional is willing to work outside. Plumbers and electricians are the last place that …