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You remind me of a comedian I saw years ago say something like "All those illegal immigrants here to take our jobs. I always wanted to be an underpaid farmhand

• Nextgrid 4y ago
  The "taking our jobs argument" is stupid. Since Brexit (and compounded by the pandemic), here in the UK a lot of industries turned to shit because it turns out that 1) the Brits don't actually want those low-paid jobs and 2) immigrants (whether outright illegal or "legal" under EU rules) were critical to a lot of those industries' proper functioning. I'm talking about hospitality, transportation (Uber/etc), basically anything that relies on unskilled labor.
  • csomar 4y ago
    Most people do not understand that raising the prices of these "basic" workers will make these jobs higher paid (for sure) but will also reduce the opportunity (or the size) of the market. If you had 4.000 Uber eats bikers with illegals, then you'd only have 400 without. On the other hand, the 90% of the population (that used the remaining 3.600 bikers) no longer can afford the "Uber Eats" and will no longer have that luxury. Now imagine that for almost everything, and there you have inflation for basic goods.