Ethnic composition, purchasing power, and the labor market.
I’m Brazilian and currently visiting Miami (Miami Beach).
In Brazil, the low-wage workforce is made up mostly of Black people; slavery was abolished there only in 1888, and that delayed action still impacts the labor market today.
I noticed that here, it is Latinos who do this kind of work.
As you know, purchasing power in that lousy country, Brazil, is non-existent. You have to work for a decade without spending a cent of your salary just to afford an entry-level car. I was amazed by the quantity and quality of the cars people own here. And a large share of these impressive vehicles belongs to Black people driving SUVs.
That said, what kind of work does this segment of the population do? In Brazil, generally speaking, Black people can’t even afford a used motorcycle. I found this balance across the population as a whole interesting and gratifying—though it’s a different story for Latinos, whose situation resembles that of Black Brazilians.