Comment by tempay
7 days ago
As with everything it's complicated but it's more true than not:
https://nccr-onthemove.ch/indicators/how-qualified-are-migra...
More importantly, education isn't everything. Half the economy runs on work that doesn't need higher education and that locals largely won't do: cleaning, care, hospitality, construction. The Spanish and Portuguese speaking workers doing those jobs are propping up a standard of living for everyone.
Won't do or won't do for slave wages?
I can't comment outside of Geneva but it's hardly "slave wages":
* https://www.mission-geneve.dfae.admin.ch/en/manual-labour-mi...
* (scroll to the cost breakdown) https://batmaid.ch/en/about-us
A better definition of slave wages is:
After food, shelter and necessities is there something left over? Lately consuner spending is increasingly debt indicating that its not break even.
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