Yes, it’s a PCM meme, but still accurate as fuck.
Look what happened to the agricultural situation in the UK after brexit: a large portion of the east EU citizens left and there was no one who wanted to pick crops.
Now they can’t get seasonal workers because of visa issues.
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’ve always wondered why conservatives harbor so much hate for immigrants and not the business owners taking advantage of vulnerable populations
That second part won’t go away, they’ll just make a different vulnerable group
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Because in a free market, “taking advantage of” someone else always involves them taking advantage of you too. It’s an exchange economy.
In a free market, being used means being paid.
If you really want to understand how conservatives think, you need to remember that we see our economy as a system of consensual trades between adults.
Being exploited is always paired with exploiting the one exploiting you. That’s why we talk in terms of “jobs”. Trade: a two-way thing.
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That’s some pretty serious mental gymnastics going that completely disregards how employee/employer relationships work in the real world.
It’s not really “consensual” if the alternative is homelessness, starvation, and criminalization is it?
Kaboom@reddthat.com 1 year ago
We want them gone too, it’s just harder to go after companies.
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 1 year ago
So going after the people being exploiters instead is constructive?