liberalsarecool:Via TeabonicsMost larger corporations and big money is encouraging immigration t
liberalsarecool: Via Teabonics Most larger corporations and big money is encouraging immigration though. One can see it as motivated by having willing workers, who are ambitious and do the dirty work the long-time residents don’t want to do. And/or to have cheap labor to sell to a society that can achieve a lot of cheap products. Either way the societal structures and the way of consuming is bound to the circumstances of labor and the demand for labor. “Legalizing” (in a purely positive-legal meaning) the already immigrated people would give them rights and would reduce at least the (legal basis of the) harshest conditions and worst treatment of the “illegal”, who are societally needed and used as workers and political enemy image as well. The economic role of cheap and dirty work is scientifically and ethically ambiguous. Immigrants can support their relatives at home even with, measured by US standards, low-paid jobs. Also there can be a relative social mobility to get better work after a more or less long time. But this only applies to ‘legalized’ immigrants.On the other hand cheap labor and dirty jobs should be paid better and should have better conditions, because of ethical reason(s) and of the important role these jobs and branches do play in our Western societies. -- source link
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