Slavery screwed over the white working class by undercutting their wages, and now immigration does the same thing.
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Replying to @HbdNrx
Nearly every argument made in favor of low-wage foreign labor can be made in favor of slavery
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Necessity is the mother of innovation. Can spend resources innovating or spend chasing cheapest labor (low-wage immigrant or slave)
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Replying to @AudaciousEpigon
Good point indeed. Saving labor is the number one reason for innovation, but why bother if someone else will do it for pennies?
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This is a point
@futurepundit has made for a long time in favor of minimum wage increases. Predicated on no low-wage immigrant labor to work1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Problem is that even if we shut off immigration, and send them back, we still have native born dumb people who won't rate $15/hr ever.
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That's where eugenics comes in
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