> exploitable cheap labor > indentured lower class that's barely surviving and has very little ability to lift itself up Thriving poverty industry and a stead

> exploitable cheap labor > indentured lower class that's barely surviving and has very little ability to lift itself up Thriving poverty industry and a steady stream of immigrants who have to start from the bottom of the visa/stay permission hierarchy ensures that at any time, there exist a solid share of a society qualifying as such. It's trivial also to embitter these two groups (domestic and incoming) onto each other.