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Billionaires can use immigration to kill two birds with one stone.
First, immigration drives up housing prices because everyone needs it, and it can't be built overnight. The imbalance in supply and demand means landlords can extract even more materially from their tenants.
Second, it drives down wages by flooding the labor market with a high supply of people desperate to take whatever is offered to them. The imbalance in supply and demand means employers can offer low wages, and if you don't take it there's a line of people they can ask next.
Rent goes up, and wages go down. That's the fault of the 1%, not immigrants looking to make a better life for themselves.
The cherry on top is that were conditioned to respond to anyone who acknowledges this as a racist. If you want to avoid the label, you need to support tla policy that will push high rents higher, and depress low wages even farther.
The people at the top have a few economic levers they can push around to manipulate society reliably.
First, immigration drives up housing prices because everyone needs it, and it can't be built overnight
Contrary to what they say on Faux News, caravanfuls of immigrants aren't let in overnight either. As for undocumented immigrants, the vast majority are Canadians and Europeans overstaying their visas and refugees who aren't rich enough to complete the legal process, neither of which will suddenly buy a shitload real estate.
Second, it drives down wages by flooding the labor market with a high supply of people desperate to take whatever is offered to them
Classic victim blaming and othering. Native born and naturalised citizens lose orders of magnitude more potential wages to wage theft than to exploited immigrants "flooding" anything. Another fallacious talking point, I'm afraid.
Rent goes up, and wages go down. That's the fault of the 1%, not immigrants looking to make a better life for themselves.
Oh good, you DIDN'T mean to victim blame, you just did it accidentally. Let's see if you can stay away from the right wing talking points for the rest of your comment, then!
The cherry on top is that were conditioned to respond to anyone who acknowledges this as a racist. If you want to avoid the label, you need to support tla policy that will push high rents higher, and depress low wages even farther.
Guess it was too much to hope for..
You don't come off as racist, you just come off as someone who, in spite of meaning well and knowing who's actually to blame, has fallen for some of the lies the billionaires and their pr machines use to make the discrimination more palatable to non-racist people.
The people at the top have a few economic levers they can push around to manipulate society reliably.
Including the dissemination of gaslighting and other insidious lies to fool even their enemies to help their cause, as you've just demonstrated yourself.
Everything you wrote implies I blamed immigrants, which is entirely a lie.
I blame the people profiting. I never said the immigrants were the ones doing something immoral.
The oligarchs know they can increase immigration to weaken the working class, and this has been done in parts of the US, and even more so in Canada especially Toronto.
Advocating for labor and tenants is not right-wing. Advocating for higher wages is not right-wing. Blaming capital, rather than migrants is not right-wing.
Right-wing politics tried to shame people who resist anti-labor, anti-tenant, anti-worker policies.
Everything you wrote implies I blamed immigrants, which is entirely a lie.
Wasn't my intention. What I meant to say is that, in spite of not blaming the immigrants themselves, you're blaming things on immigration that simply are not caused by immigration.
they can increase immigration to weaken the working class
That's the crux of it: they can't. Immigration is a net benefit to the economy as a whole, ESPECIALLY the working class.
This has been done
No. They made it up. Immigration doesn't hurt you.
Advocating for labor and tenants is not right-wing. Advocating for higher wages is not right-wing. Blaming capital, rather than migrants is not right-wing.
True, but you're still missing my point: even when not blaming the immigrants themselves, you're helping the right wing when you repeat their bogus talking points. No matter how different your intentions and attitude towards immigrants are.
Right-wing politics tried to shame people who resist anti-labor, anti-tenant, anti-worker policies.
And also made up causal relationships, having so much success doing so that even seemingly good people like yourself repeat their lies.
If we had living wage laws and housing wasn't blocked by the landed classes, immigration would not be harmful.
Without certain socialist policies in place first, high immigration weakens the leverage workers have.
That's the #1 concept labor needs to understand, that everyone in the capital class already groks: leverage
If we had (..) immigration would not be harmful.
I'm getting tired of repeating the simple fact that it already isn't. Stop repeating the propaganda of those we're fighting against, please.
Without certain socialist policies in place first, high immigration weakens the leverage workers have.
First of all: no. That's simply not true. Second of all, the US has low immigration per capita compared to most countries.
What you're doing is propaganda.
Notice how you don't even bother to refute the claim I made, just immediately trying to shame me out of expressing it.
I believe in dialectics, not giving in to name-calling.
No, what I'm doing is disabusing you of false notions, that you haven't provided any proof of yourself.
Study showing that immigration depressing wages is close to zero at first and actually INCREASES productivity and wages in the long run.
As for property prices, compare this to the fact that net immigration is declining. .
I believe in fact-based arguments, not blindly repeating commonly believed lies and complaining about being shamed when others point it out.
can't be built overnight
Jimmy Carter does it all the time.
He only does it overnight with the help of chuck norris
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