Comment by weweersdfsd

Comment by weweersdfsd 2 days ago

4 replies

They will keep crying that, no matter the actual labor market situation. My country has low wages, high unemployment, and yet businesses similarly cry for more immigration, as they always want to find the most desperate worker who accepts the lowest wage possible. That's the reality of modern capitalism.

eru 2 days ago

Have you considered that those foreigners are humans, too?

Or do you believe in out-of-sight-is-out-of-mind?

  • weweersdfsd a day ago

    Of course they are humans like everybody else. But I do not support mass migration as a tool for bringing the wages further down and exploiting workers. I think the rich should be taxed much more, and that money used to reduce poverty & improve education globally. It's not migration itself that is the problem, but the fact many migrants are in a position where they can be exploited more easily than native workers.

    In ideal world businesses would have to pay a fair livable wage, no matter where they build factories, or receive migrants from.

    • eru 7 hours ago

      Mass migration would bring their wages _up_, not down. That's why they would migrate.

      > It's not migration itself that is the problem, but the fact many migrants are in a position where they can be exploited more easily than native workers.

      Well, if you let people migrate easily and legally, they wouldn't be easier to exploit than native workers.