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What I worry about is that the same people who call for more immigration also call for higher wages and better working conditions for blue collar labor. Increa
by proffeatur8 4y ago
What I worry about is that the same people who call for more immigration also call for higher wages and better working conditions for blue collar labor.
Increased immigration from poorer countries only results in lower wages and less leverage to negotiate for the most vulnerable. Regardless of whatever laws you try to bring forth to counter this, you’ll be fighting a permanent uphill battle against physical reality.
The modern progressive attitude is to simply be for everything indiscriminately, without regard for the contradictions.
- hackerlight 4y ago"Increased immigration from poorer countries only results in lower wages and less leverage to negotiate for the most vulnerable." Nonsense, given that the "most vulnerable" -- by a large margin -- are the people inside the poor country who have now been unbanned from the landmass you've declared that you own at the barrel of a gun.
- jrochkind1 4y agoAnd yet historically, the period with the highest immigration to the US, roughly 1880-1920, was also a period of rising wages, not lower wages, as well as generally improving living conditions.
- 4gotunameagain 4y agowhich has nothing to do with immigration, and just with the post-industrialisation boom. growth was so large that society could accommodate such immigration rates