Quote (Thor123422 @ 21 Dec 2020 02:11)
The concerns are real. The target is intentionally moved from the ones actually causing the problem (large companies fucking us over) to those with no power.
When people excuse businesses for hiring Mexicans "because theyre cheaper and thats how economics works" they don't apply the same logic to labor moving to where jobs are thats because of how the argument is framed. The reason its framed that way is because the other way would put the employer on blast. Thats why its always framed as an immigration problem. The employers have the money to frame the narrative against the exact people they hire.
That's with regard to the economic effects of mass immigration. The modern left, however, has elevated immigration, "openness" and increasing diversity into an ideology and frames its pursuit as a moral cause. Opposing the influx of one million third world foreigners per year no longer makes you someone with a different opinion on economic policy or different preferences on the assilimation-multiculturalism spectrum - no, nowadays, it makes you a xenophobe and a despicable human being that deserves to be silenced or deplatformed.
On top of that, focusing narrowly on "they took our jubs"-aspect conveniently ignores the impact that this type of mass immigration has on social trust, social cohesion, stuff like solidarity and so on. Guidelines for Amazon warehouses specifically list "diversity" as a factor that reduces the risk of unionization. And yes, more generally speaking, a steady influx of cheap labor will
of course have a dampening effect on wages in the segments of the job market that have to compete with the newcomers.
Simply put, as long as mass immigration is not stopped, most efforts to prevent large corporations from fucking over the little man have no chance of succeeding.
In countries with a stronger social safety net than the U.S., like most of Europe, you additionally have the problem of so-called "immigration into the welfare state". You Americans dont even realize how good you have it with your immigration problem. You're spending far less on welfare for unproductive and/or unintegrated immigrants than Europe does, and you mostly have to deal with latinos and some asians, most of whom are fairly based. Here in Europe, we have to deal mostly with muslims and africans, who are poorer, less educated and culturally more distant (and thus harder to integrate).
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Dec 21 2020 05:18am