Comment by joe_mamba
4 days ago
>Immigrants do not suppress wages, business owners do.
Of course business owners suppress wages. By using immigrants as leverage to tilt the supply/demand of labor in their favor. Duh.
4 days ago
>Immigrants do not suppress wages, business owners do.
Of course business owners suppress wages. By using immigrants as leverage to tilt the supply/demand of labor in their favor. Duh.
Businesses seldom set the immigration policy. They just try to get value for money like everyone else.
>Businesses seldom set the immigration policy
Why are you putting words in my month? I never said they did, but they do lobby the government to set an immigration policy that favors business and assets over labor, d'uh!
>They just try to get value for money like everyone else.
No, they're not like "everybody else". If corporations want cheaper tabor, they just tell the government and they open the immigration taps. But if workers want higher wages they can't have the government deport excess labor. It's a power asymmetry.