Pay up. If it is important enough to you that you want it done, pay above basic minimum wage and someone will do it for you. Must we keep people in wage slavery because you want your roof tarred?<p>We&#x27;ve heard this sort of argument before, of course. Back before the emancipation, some white landlord would say &quot;If we let these negroes go, who is going to pick the cotton?&quot; --- We ended slavery, and we should end wage slavery.