The idea of importing huge swarms of cheap immigrant labor to fill jobs “nobody wants” – an argument which can easily be torn apart as complete BS – is unsustainable and damaging.
Think about going to a cafe. When you go to get your coffee or herbal tea there are employees there. If you are in an upscale community where people making the wages that employees at coffee shops make, that is obviously unsustainable. No one can be unaware of this unsustainability while they are buying their tea.
Anywhere you go, in any city, there is always going to be a spectrum of jobs. At the lowest end there will be people working in jobs like retail where the rate of pay is usually minimum wage or close to it. Then there is the high end and what can be considered the average or median.
When the median income in an area is so disparate with the lowest, it creates a huge problem. Its not just a practical problem of there being a potential shortage of labor due to unaffordability. While that is precisely the argument taken by a lot of deluded “liberals”, its actually a quite inhumane and extremely narrow one in terms of the actual effects on the lives of human beings and on the culture. Its kind of sick that the more important social, cultural, and other elements just get thrown out in favor of arguing based on “pure economics”, which is basically BS.
When the disparity between the lowest-earning and middle- or highest-earning people in a community becomes high, it rots away at the community. Importing a lot of cheap labor to work at low-paying jobs is exactly the wrong thing to do. What needs to be done, desperately I would add, is to reduce disparity. By not bringing in cheap labor. Not flooding the market with huge swarms of immigrants (most of whom are illegal which causes many other problems).
Its shocking the extent to which people either don’t get this, or else that the oligarchy’s Big Media is so consistently pushing a big lie about immigration that its not being discussed.
Perhaps I’m lucky to have grown up in a part of the midwest during a time when the income disparity in my home town was much smaller than it is today. And there was not cheap, imported, mass illegal immigrant labor. Those jobs were filled – by us. By me. By my friends. By my parents. By my relatives. By everyone I knew. We were not unlucky because of this, we were lucky.
There was a kind of unity, a cohesion that bonded us all together in a way that is very absent in other places. When that cohesion is lost, a community is fucked. It becomes twisted.
Another major problem is that – we are supposed to be innovators. When demand for labor drives up wages, that’s supposed to fuel innovation. Again, this is something that is being completely missed by people or else quite deliberately dropped from the radar of what needs to be discussed. Demand for labor, after the Black Death had swept through Europe in the middle ages, is what created the renaissance. It led directly to the creation of a well-off middle class which completely transformed European society. The effect of that vast transformation is still being enjoyed today, and like no other time is under grave threat due to insane policies of greedy, manipulative oligarchs who are intent to fuck over their own peoples en masse in order to line their pockets.
This is the number one reason why the Democrats – and mainstream Republicans – are insane. They are advocating policies which destroy communities at their core and which are profoundly unsustainable in the long term.
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