Have you considered that you might be subject to a kind of selection bias here? You ran into people that were successful enough to thrive here. What about all t

Have you considered that you might be subject to a kind of selection bias here? You ran into people that were successful enough to thrive here. What about all the others that did not succeed? That had to go back to wherever they came from because their visa ended and they could no longer stay in the country? >Free markets have vaulted more people out of poverty, by far, than any other system yet devised. The historical record on that is pretty clear. And unions are part of that free market. I don't know how much more free market one can get than people coming together to offer their labour in an organized fashion.