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German and Italian youths have a lot of problems as well. Young Italians are facing crushing unemployment and Germans are facing increasing pressure from cheape

German and Italian youths have a lot of problems as well. Young Italians are facing crushing unemployment and Germans are facing increasing pressure from cheaper EU labor undermining their earning potential. From what I have been told by friends, being told “shut up and do your job or I’ll replace you with a cheaper foreigner” is a common experience. In addition the modern US campus experience is ‘in loco parentis‘ and even back when I experienced it there was a great deal of coddling and from what I’ve seen it’s gotten worse.

panick21_ 4y ago
The spector of the cheap immigrant is always raised everywhere that is successful. And most economic study on the topic shows that is far less an isse them is immagined in popular imagination.
Xylakant 4y ago
Germany has a substantial labor shortage in practically all departments except low/unskilled labor. Unemployment hovers around 5% and falling. There are regional differences, but all in all, the threat of “I’ll replace you with a cheaper immigration” is bogus, because there’s not even enough qualified immigrants to fill the open positions, let alone replace anyone with.
- cjbgkagh 4y ago
  The Germans I met were in America so likely a biased sample, but it was more than one and they didn’t know each other. In addition I got the threat of being replace with a cheaper immigrant in the US even though I was the immigrant, but I worked in research which is generally paid much more than other programmers so more likely to encounter the whole why are we paying you so much sentiment.
ido 4y ago
We've lived in Germany for 9 years (and Austria before that, which is culturally and economically very similar) and I've not encountered that supposed widespread threat of being replaced with cheap foreign labor.

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German and Italian youths have a lot of problems as well. Young Italians are facing crushing unemployment and Germans are facing increasing pressure from cheape

by cjbgkagh 4y ago

panick21_ 4y ago
The spector of the cheap immigrant is always raised everywhere that is successful. And most economic study on the topic shows that is far less an isse them is immagined in popular imagination.
Xylakant 4y ago
Germany has a substantial labor shortage in practically all departments except low/unskilled labor. Unemployment hovers around 5% and falling. There are regional differences, but all in all, the threat of “I’ll replace you with a cheaper immigration” is bogus, because there’s not even enough qualified immigrants to fill the open positions, let alone replace anyone with.
- cjbgkagh 4y ago
  The Germans I met were in America so likely a biased sample, but it was more than one and they didn’t know each other. In addition I got the threat of being replace with a cheaper immigrant in the US even though I was the immigrant, but I worked in research which is generally paid much more than other programmers so more likely to encounter the whole why are we paying you so much sentiment.
ido 4y ago
We've lived in Germany for 9 years (and Austria before that, which is culturally and economically very similar) and I've not encountered that supposed widespread threat of being replaced with cheap foreign labor.