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How people still believe that importing masses of immigrants from poorer nations who are used to a fraction of the standard of living and will be contempt with
by selfmodruntime 3y ago
How people still believe that importing masses of immigrants from poorer nations who are used to a fraction of the standard of living and will be contempt with much less money has no effect on employment / wages is beyond me.
- achates 3y agoWe even have an example of what a train wreck it is in Canada, with stagnant productivity, a housing bubble and overcrowded public services. But we're determined to make the exact same mistakes.
- kypro 3y agoThe UK has been doing the same thing and has exactly the same problems.
- vinniepukh 3y agothis is really annoying to read. go open the careers page for most mid-tier tech co’s (Coinbase, Rippling, Affirm) and count the number of SWE jobs in India/Latam/Eastern Europe vs the U.S. Say you get your wish of no immigration. How are you going to force these companies to not hire abroad instead? At least if the worker who competes with you is in the U.S., they have the same cost structure as you and won’t undercut you as much or at all on wage.
- Boatfaceing 3y ago[dead]
- hasty_pudding 3y agoThey do it for VOTES in the short term, not realizing or not caring in the long term it's actually destabilizing the country. and it's not one party or another either. it's both parties.