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It's been a long time since I've been in the Old Country. I'd believe live-in help is long gone, but have you all truly lost all the car washes, restaurant kitc
by 082349872349872 3y ago
It's been a long time since I've been in the Old Country. I'd believe live-in help is long gone, but have you all truly lost all the car washes, restaurant kitchens (and waitstaff), gardening and janitorial services, day labour walls, valet parking, etc.?
(as to cheap housing, note that the 1961 lyrics include "12 in a room in America")
- bell-cot 3y ago> Have you truly lost all... Literally, no. But... Massive losses of higher-paying/higher-skill jobs, especially in factories, are pushing very large number of citizens into low-pay/low-skill/insecure jobs. They often react badly to the prospect of (their PoV) yet more people who the boss could replace them with at any moment. Current accepted wisdom, for many manual jobs, is that automation/robots/AI will replace most of the human workers in the next decade-ish. For instance - the hot new trend in car washes is extreme automation - cutting the labor force by 10X or more. Gentrification puts NIMBY's - who tend to be very poverty-intolerant - either in, or close to, many of the places where migrants might live "at unintended high densities".