Schrodinger's immigrant, simultaneously taking jobs and lazy
Schrodinger's immigrant, simultaneously taking jobs and lazy
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Raise the minimum wage and enforce it aggressively. All the negative side effects of undocumented workers disappear immediately.
A fairly-compensated working class has disposable income to invigorate the economy. That’s how the post-WW2 Pax Americana worked. A rising middle class fixes every late stage capitalism economic problem.
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Yes. Raise minimum wage. $20 isn't too much, even in Kansas or wherever.
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This still perpetuates the lie that immigration reduces wages when it actually improves wages: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2024/05/01/immigrants-raise-wages-and-boost-employment-of-us-born-workers/
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Right. So yes, if immigrants take the lowest paying jobs, then the average citizen wage will seem higher because the lowest wages were removed from the pool. That's how average work. I don't think it somehow means the immigrants are causing a wage increase.
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It's not just removal of low paying jobs, it's creation of higher paying jobs; that's why employment also improves. As the article explains, the "somehow" is that immigrants also increase the demand for goods and services.
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Now we're losing jobs to "intelligent" bundles of code and bots. Is it time to blame the programmers?
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Yep. Eat the devs
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guess you should have unionized, then.
My wife is in a union and makes like $34k full time. Her last union paid worse. Unions aren't what they used to be, it's almost like millions of immigrants willing to work for slave wages takes away some bargaining power. That isn't all the fault of the capitalists, although the Democrats certainly took their bribe money.