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Someone always thinks something else is more important. Doing that and making (wishfully) perfect the enemy of good are solid recipes for no progress.
In the abstract sure, but in reality context is everything. Would you celebrate countries like Israel or Russia passing similar labor reforms? Probably not, and rightfully so, because those countries clearly have much bigger, more pressing problems going on... like active wars and genocides. Mexico is not that far off, the cartel situation is truly something that is that disproportionate and bleak.
Yes. Improvement no matter how small is still improvement. More importantly, improving conditions can have sideways impacts on those big problems. Cartels (and Putin, using your Russia example) feed off desperation. Improving material conditions tends to make things harder for the bad guys, which is why the bad guys work so hard to make materials conditions worse (/wave MAGA). In reality, most problems are multi-faceted so we'd be fools not to see the big picture and do what we can where we can. The alternative, hyper focusing on the big problems, lets other problems grow which ultimately ends up feeding the big problem.
I don't think we necessarily disagree on principle, we just disagree in our conclusions. I don't think what I'm calling for is hyper fixation. The cartel issue by far the biggest and most pressing issue in the country to the point where it's existential threat, and yet it is completely neglected at the cost of the common people. Again, I don't have an issue with laws like this, you're right that any improvement is better than nothing. However, it does highlight the fact the president is tone deaf. She's been in office for 2 years now, and she has largely followed in the footsteps of her predecessor, AMLO, in going soft of cartels, which is a mistake costing the country dearly.
You talk about improving material conditions makes things for the bad guys, but the bad guys here are not the government. Cartels directly worsen material conditions with their operations, they obviously don't follow labor laws, and there's nothing to counter their influence in the country. There's shootouts in the streets that are akin to active warzones. The people who are saying I'm letting perfect be the enemy of good are delusional. This is like having a bear chewing on your leg in a national park while you scream in agony for a park ranger to help you, only for one to arrive and tell the good news that he's revoking your parking ticket before leaving.
If there was an easy solution to the cartels someone would have done it already. Take obtainable wins.