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Re:Why are American workers becoming harder to find? by onion2k on Monday June 07, 2021 @04:05AM (#27420200)
You're correct, this is America. You can work hard and build something. America is intentionally setup NOT to give you anything, but to make as many opportunities as possible open to you. That's why people brave deserts to come here.

The majority of people don't want to move to America. This is simple math. There are about 7 billion people on Earth. 300 million are already in America. Approximately an additional million people move to America every year legally, and some number enter illegally. Even if twice as many people enter illegally, that's only 3 million people, which is just 0.045% of the people on Earth.

Many Americans believe that everyone is desperate to leave where they live and move to the USA and chase the American Dream. This belief is wrong.

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Re:Why are American workers becoming harder to find? by janeroe on Monday June 07, 2021 @06:41AM (#27421022)
It seems you believe that anyone who wants to come to the States (or any other country) can just buy a ticket, get there, and stay. I have to disappoint you, that's not the case for most of the countries in the world including the US.
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