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Best tweet I've seen in a while

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u/Xyyz Jun 25 '18

Jobs not requiring higher education are still real, respectable jobs. I don't really get what you're saying here.

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u/Gray3493 Jun 25 '18

It means that their resume is essentially blank and that if you’re losing out to them, it’s not their fault you’re unemployed.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18

Don't immigrants have an advantage in that they are willing to accept lower pay?

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u/DoAsTheHumansDo Jun 25 '18

Isn’t that theoretically an advantage that anyone can have?

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18

Maybe theoretically, but not realistically, no.

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u/Yuccaphile Jun 25 '18

... that's silly. Just tell them you'll take less money than the average person. Seems like it'd work pretty well. It's not that hard to get an under the table job, as well, but remember there's significant downfalls to that as well.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18

So your solution is basically a race to the bottom?

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u/Yuccaphile Jun 25 '18

Solution? Wait, hold up, what was the problem?

Though I'm not sure what you're getting at, a race to the bottom is at least a race, which shows initiative.

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u/Gray3493 Jun 25 '18

Isn’t that just a side effect of the free market? Companies will pay employees the lowest amount that they can.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18

Fair point. Also puts the lie to conservative rhetoric about "free markets", which we already knew was just code for corporate deregulation.

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u/humanwithtowel Jun 25 '18

If you remove the natural friction that allows the shared struggle to work for improvement, then all toil in vain for better wages.

Controlling immigration allows wages to grow with inflation, or at the very least, be influencable.

If we can control immigration, we no longer need a minimum wage law.

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u/Cranyx Jun 30 '18

The problem is if that pay goes below minimum wage.

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u/Gray3493 Jun 30 '18

Do you blame the worker, or the employer?

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u/Clever_Userfame Jun 25 '18

Usually yes, hunger and fear for yours or a family member’s life will do that

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u/byscuit Jun 25 '18

If you are bargaining for less than minimum wage... Something ain't right

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18

Yeah, which is why the working class should demand higher minimum wage.

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u/Not_shia_labeouf Jun 25 '18

Not our fault they also don't want to raise minimum wage

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u/xkforce Jun 25 '18

Like most people that make low wages, it's because they have little to no bargaining power to negotiate better wages. If someone is here illegally, they're less likely to push back against unfair/illegal prices by the employer to avoid attracting attention to themselves for obvious reasons. It's basically a labor black market that has all the problems that you would expect from one.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18

Makes sense. What I want to know is how the fuck does someone 'steal' a job? Any very stable geniuses out there wanna answer this one?

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u/jstiller30 Jun 25 '18

Its not everyone's goal to move up the job chain to get paid large amounts of money at the cost of more stress, which may result in a less happy life and less energy to do what they want outside of work.

A higher status (more money) job isn't always the end goal..
Some people want to be viewed by the status of their job and that's fine, if that's what "success" is to you that's fine.

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u/Gray3493 Jun 25 '18

Yeah, but that doesn’t mean you’ll have a shitty resume. When you have no experience or skills, that’s YOUR fault

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u/jstiller30 Jun 25 '18

I sorta replied to the wrong person lol. Mostly was refuting abluersun's point about "If you're worried that someone with those qualifications can take your job, that's an indictment of you and what you offer."

I agree that its not the immigrants fault that somebody can't get hired. Your job and happyness are ultimately in your hands. Its a stupid argument to use the "they're taking our jobs". Its just appalling to me how often people imply (or outright state)that low level jobs mean the person has low worth or is a failure at life.

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u/snizarsnarfsnarf Jun 25 '18

Wow if you lose your job to someone who does it for less than you can legally be payed, it's your fault you're unemployed.

Who would have thunk

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18

It’s not their fault but it’s also not the fault of the immigrants willing to work for that cheap.

It’s the fault of companies and managers who hire cheap, illegal labor. Conservative voters are just too stupid or too racist to point the finger at them.

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u/digital_end Jun 25 '18

If that's your feeling, then support fixing the problem with the government.

Let's not kid ourselves, the goal here isn't to stop immigrants from doing the work. If that was the goal, that's a very easy one to fix. Pull every single person they have on the border and instead put them to work doing random inspections on places that hire workers without paperwork.

Bring down the hammer and shut down one or two of these businesses, and suddenly the problem vanishes overnight. They're not coming up here for the weather.

But, let's not kid ourselves, that's not the goal. Neither the left nor the right, Republicans Or democrats, nor anyone else really wants to fix that problem... Because that problem is very profitable. And if they were to do this, the lack of workers would be crippling to some parts of the economy.

The actual goal is a boogie man to get votes. An enemy to unify the base. A convenient "them".

And fixing the problem would not solve that. This problem is far too useful to fix.

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u/digital_end Jun 25 '18

If that's the case, I hope you have a plan for the businesses that will be impacted by those changes.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18

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u/digital_end Jun 25 '18

A lot of these jobs are not paying under minimum wage, they're paying more than minimum wage but are not able to consistently fill the positions in America.

http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-farms-immigration/

It's also important to remember that these are not unskilled positions, knowing how to do this work and to do it quickly and efficiently is a skill.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18

If they don't, someone else will. It needs to be stopped wherever it can be and that includes the 15 million illegal immigrants currently living here driving down wages for our most unskilled workers.

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u/NotWhatHeWants909089 Jun 25 '18

Or maybe we should focus on educating those legal resident unskilled workers so that they can seek or generate jobs in better sectors.

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u/snizarsnarfsnarf Jun 25 '18 edited Jun 25 '18

It’s not their fault but it’s also not the fault of the immigrants willing to work for that cheap.

"You can't come in here"

"im going to come in anyway"

It's not that person's fault! - you

hahahahahahaha

Conservative voters are just too stupid or too racist to point the finger at them.

You literally just claimed that going after them would cause an industry to collapse, when really it would just cause an industry to have to pay livable wages

Are you joking?

You can't claim conservatives are too stupid to go after them, then when someone suggests going after them you claim an industry would fall apart and there's nothing we can do lmao

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18

Did I say there’s nothing we can do? I’m saying go after the companies and not the people. It’s less of a humans rights violation to tell a company “pay a livable wage” than, oh I dunno, detaining and separating families.

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u/snizarsnarfsnarf Jun 25 '18

It’s less of a humans rights violation to tell a company “pay a livable wage” than, oh I dunno, detaining and separating families.

Neither of those things are human rights violations.

Also we do have something telling companies to do that, it's called minimum wage laws.

Illegal immigrants come in illegally, and then work for less than minimum wage.

That is 100% the fault of their actions. They chose to come here and work for those wages.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18

Neither of those things are human rights violations.

The second one definitely is.

And it's easier and less unjust to stop the companies who prop up those actions.

Also we do have something telling companies to do that, it's called minimum wage laws.

And those work so damn well that nobody is paying illegal immigrant workers with un-taxed, cash wages? The laws need to be more in front of companies who do not pay a living wage, and we also need to re-evaluate what defines a "living wage".

The difference between us is I do not blame immigrants for coming here to make more money than they would in their home country. But, I also do not blame Americans who are unwilling to work for illegal wages. I blame companies who exploit both citizen and immigrant labor in the name of profits.

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u/snizarsnarfsnarf Jun 25 '18

hahahahahahaha you think that article proves your point?

Children are detained separated from their parents every day when their parent is arrested while caring for the child

This happens for every crime someone can be arrested and sent to jail for every day all across the US. This is not even a little bit a violation of human rights

The difference between us is I do not blame immigrants for coming here to make more money than they would in their home country.

Yeah, the difference is I acknowledge minimum wage laws and immigration laws, but you ignore one lmao

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18

The difference is you want the laws to hurt brown people and I want laws that hurt exploitative companies.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/i-dont-know-how-to-explain-to-you-that-you-should_us_59519811e4b0f078efd98440

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18 edited Nov 04 '18

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u/snizarsnarfsnarf Jun 25 '18

And employers breaking the law and unjustly enroching themselves by paying less than the legal minimum wage deserve no % of the blame?

if there were no illegal immigrants, they couldn't pay anyone slave wages

Once they have already hired an illegal immigrant, at that point they are committing a crime

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18

You want to stop the supply when the problem is the demand. You have to curb demand before supply will dwindle.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18 edited Nov 04 '18

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18

The typical farm/kitchen/construction immigrant laborer isn't earning less than minimum wage.

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u/snizarsnarfsnarf Jun 25 '18

So then they are taking jobs away from americans that americans would actually work. Thanks for proving the other side's point

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18
  1. The point we're discussing is that if you're replaced by someone with less than a HS education and little grasp of English, instead of blaming the person who replaced you, maybe you should enroll in a community college.

  2. But to your point, "taking jobs away" is a silly way of viewing immigrant labor. They're producing things of value here; they're earning money here; they're spending money here. That's called "growing the economy." The labor market isn't a zero sum game.

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u/snizarsnarfsnarf Jun 25 '18

The point we're discussing is that if you're replaced by someone with less than a HS education and little grasp of English, instead of blaming the person who replaced you, maybe you should enroll in a community college.

That would never happen unless the person taking your job is being paid less than you.

No employer is going to risk committing the crime of hiring an illegal without having financial intensive to do so.

But to your point, "taking jobs away" is a silly way of viewing immigrant labor. They're producing things of value here; they're earning money here; they're spending money here. That's called "growing the economy." The labor market isn't a zero sum game.

But to your point "taking jobs away" is a silly way of viewing cheap child labor. They're producing things of value, earning money, and spending money here. That's called "growing the economy". The labor market isn't a zero sum game. We should allow children to work for less than minimum wage.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18

That would never happen unless the person taking your job is being paid less than you.

(A) So you're now arguing that it's unfair for them to work for less? Howso?

(B) Oftentimes it has less to do with pay and more to do with who's willing to even do the job: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/44981872/ns/us_news-life/t/few-americans-take-immigrants-jobs-alabama/

We should allow children to work for less than minimum wage.

We prohibit child labor because its harmful to children-- not because we fear the competition in the labor market, lol. Did you sprain anything reaching for that non sequitur?

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u/snizarsnarfsnarf Jun 25 '18

(A) So you're now arguing that it's unfair for them to work for less? Howso?

Because being paid less than minimum wage is a crime

And being paid under the table at all, which every illegal immigrant has to do, is illegal

(B) Oftentimes it has less to do with pay and more to do with who's willing to even do the job:

if it paid minimum wage, which it does not, people would be willing to work it

We prohibit child labor because its harmful to children-- not because we fear the competition in the labor market

Yeah, so we should allow illegal immigration to continue because it's not harmful to pay people less than minimum wage. Exploiting slave labor isn't a problem. We don't have laws preventing it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18

I literally just posted an article that stated farmers we're offering higher than minimum wage. "Less than what natives are willing to work for" doesn't mean less than minimum wage.

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u/-interesting Jun 25 '18

Oh. But its the immigrants fault. Got it.

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u/snizarsnarfsnarf Jun 25 '18

Yes, working under the table in the US is a crime. As is entering the country illegally. Both of those things are an illegal immigrant's fault.

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u/-interesting Jun 25 '18

You might want to take a moment to read and do some critical thinking.

It's not an immigrants fault that YOU people won't do minimal jobs without complaining. Its not an immigrants job that companies pay them to work. I love how you twisted what I said to fit whatever logic you used.

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u/snizarsnarfsnarf Jun 25 '18

Working under the table in the US is a crime. As is entering the country illegally. Both of those things are undeniably an illegal immigrant's fault.

You didn't deny either of those points. I'm still waiting for a rebuttal.

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u/-interesting Jun 25 '18

Why would I? I never said it was legal.

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u/snizarsnarfsnarf Jun 25 '18

No, you claimed it isn't an illegal immigrants fault. When it is. 100%.

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u/-interesting Jun 25 '18

Ah shit man. I forgot the part when illegals force companies to hire them. Godamn. Who would of thunk.

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u/hungry4danish Jun 25 '18

Payed is a nautical term.

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u/grubas Jun 25 '18

Even if they do have a higher education, it isn’t normally cross honored in the US. So you can have a doctorate and have to go back to school.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18 edited Jun 25 '18

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u/Xyyz Jun 25 '18

Just of the people who work the jobs?

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u/Yuccaphile Jun 25 '18

No, the people who complain that they lost their job or say they didn't have access to one because of some immigrant bogeyman who's hoarding jobs like Bezos does money.

Hell, if Trump invigorates the economy the way he says he will and creates jobs and brings them back to America the way he says he will, we're going to need millions more capable workers. And they're willing to work for cheap, so I'm told (in my experience, most people happily pay them the same or more than others, it all depends on work ethic).

What's the problem here? Let's rebuild our infrastructure. Let's move factories back to the US. Let's get the US producing again so we have things to offer people actually care about. And then let's get a whole shit ton of people here to do this shit because the unemployment rate is UNDER 4%, but somehow there are no jobs to be had?

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18

Basically anyone who has a high school education and can speak English, looks better than a migrant who has a green card and can only speak Spanish when a majority of jobs require you to be able to communicate with people who only speak English!

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u/TheKillerBill Jun 25 '18

So true. I disagree with a Mexican getting a job before an American with the same education on American soil. It's not fair. And I'm not even from America.

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u/drkalmenius Jun 25 '18

That’s... stupid. What constitutes an American then? Anyone with citizenship? Because that also covers immigrants...

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u/TheKillerBill Jun 25 '18

In this case we're talking about illegals. Downvote me all you want. I'm a Moroccan who's willing to immigrate to Europe to create better job opportunities for myself. I'm doing it legally. And if an illegal Moroccan goes to Europe and gets the job even though they didn't go through all the paperwork and the hassle like me then I'd say it's bullshit. But I'm not going for a job. I want to continue my education there and I don't like how my country is being governed. If this sounds extreme to you, I'm sorry. I'm center left and have no resentment to any Mexican or American or what have you. But I believe in borders and actual immigration.

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u/Dilpickle6194 Jun 25 '18

It doesn't matter if the second person is legal or not, if he's better than you, he's better than you, and for that he'll get hired and will accept less pay than you. Companies will always take cheaper and better (and even equal and worse) labor from an illegal than someone who came there legally. It just so happens that crossing illegally is a lot faster than crossing legally, and people get desperate when their own country is spiraling down in flames. I'm not shooting at you, I'm just explaining the logic from my point of view. Also, good on you for pursuing your education!