• @rumba@lemmy.zip
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      12 months ago

      I get the concept of the meme. There are a lot of people out there ‘worried’ about immigrants taking their (absolutely safe, no fucking way they are going to get that job) jobs

      However, fresh immigration does drive down the pay for trade work in areas where immigrants are skilled. Bricklayers, Drywallers, Painters, and Guys slinging up ductwork are getting paid peanuts.

      Immigrants coming in do compete for the jobs other immigrants already hold. Any if their status is in question, they’ll work even cheaper.

      • @porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml
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        02 months ago

        That’s not the concept of the meme, you have 100% missed the point. Or rather, that’s expressed in the meme. Yes, “foreigner” would want a cookie which the white guy has. But your conception is still that they’re fighting over that one cookie, while the rich dude is actually hoarding all the cookies. You have fully fallen for the propaganda.

      • @sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz
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        02 months ago

        I get the concept of the meme.

        -proceeds to not understand the concept of the meme and repeat provably false anti-immigration talking points-

        Is this the literacy crisis everyone is talking about? Chat, are we cooked?