No, just no. You’re missing the point. Poor people are poor people, some are immigrants, some are not.
Anything that benefits poor immigrants will also benefit poor citizens. Anything that enriches white nationals, will enrich the rich immigrants that can become nationals just paying money anyways.
It is your boss taking away your job and giving it to the lowest bidder. It doesn’t matter who the bidder is. There will always be someone poorer than you, willing to work for less out of desperation. Sometimes they ar immigrants, sometimes they are white nationals.
Grimtuck@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The billionaires have you convinced. Congratulations. Now only billionaires can benefit from cheap labour. I wish you that happened? What kind of forces would possibly make it so that only the rich would benefit? Must be the immigrants, right?
bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 3 months ago
I’m only in mid-six figures and I’ll admit I benefit and the poor suffer. If there was no immigrant labor general goods would cost more, and I’d feel the drag paying more for what is cheaper… like I will soon when we’re all competing with dollars for a share if smaller harvests. I predict we’ll feel it hard around thanksgiving.
The only solutions locally are discovery of more economic ways to produce, or importing from cheaper parts of the world. We’ve been covering our eyes on where the chicken comes from for years, and we’re going to learn a hard lesson by going cold turkey.
BitchPeas@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Gurl. It’s resource management. We have people destroying goods to inflate price. There’s plenty for every human on the planet. It’s literally the people in control, my six figure friend, purposefully creating false scarcity and fear mongering.