You have to be a certain level of stupid to believe a migrant is the reason your pay sucks.
this post was submitted on 14 May 2024
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But it's what my HateTV News channel tells me! They wouldn't lie.
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It's not your boss, it's "executive leadership", the board of directors, and the shareholders.
But my boss is an immigrant. Although, so am I...
Kind of a messed up take here but migrants are used as a tool by the proletariat to keep wages low and to push down wages. I see the perspective that C-Suite Individuals (CEO, COO, CFO, etc.) keep wages low and pocket the multi-million dollar change, but how do they justify it? "Market Rate" is a good way to deflect blame nowhere. Everyone's moving labor outside of the US, and at least for me as a USA born working class individual, it weakens my ability to earn for my family.
We need well-paying low-education manufacturing jobs in this country. I say it so much that I literally just auto completed that sentence. I don't know what these rich fucks are thinking, who is going to buy their meaningless bullshit and baubles when you have to spend your whole check on rent and food?
Super agreed. We used to be a country where a janitor was able to get a house for themselves and their kids, and provide for a family on a single income. I'm basing this off of a real example too lol! My middle school janitor in Queens, NYC is a dope dude. Granted things are different now, the population size is expanding and there is a space/space-to-person ratio crisis, but that can't mean that engineering apprentices, or technicians, or low-volt electricians have to live making < $50k (explicit examples that I've seen in my HCOL area). There once was a gradient for a middle class, now it's just either high income or broke lol.
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Yea man, and how are they doing it?
They keep more of the money while inflation does its job?
In many industries they focus on bringing in foreign labour so they can keep supply high and costs low.
You’d probably have a lot more people picking fruit if they had to start paying an appealing wage.
If overhead increases at a lower rate than profits, they will take more in profit. If all workers who meet the employment requirements are only willing to work if the pay is higher, then it would have to increase to attract them, thereby increasing overhead and reducing profits.
Yeah all the "migrants" ive worked with were paid same as i was. Worked just as hard for the most part but like every other demographic there are people who, for their own reasons, chose not to. Could be a cultural thing i dont know, but it doesnt make them look too good when i have to do their job as well as mine.
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