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A comment on /r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrification. Parent comment

Re:/r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrifi... by LegitShady on Monday February 07, 2022 @02:04PM (#30249437)
Why would the cost of those unpopular jobs go up? If a company can't find anyone at "market rates" they can just get temporary foreign workers and never raise the wage. As long as everyone is cashing in on the cheaper tfws the price never goes up and they never need to hire anyone at a riser wage.

All these market conditions for wages don't work with all the policies set in place to depress worker wage increase.

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Re:/r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrifi... by JSavageOne on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @10:05AM (#30259210)
Yes this is also possible as well. I mean it's already the case that immigrants (eg. from Guatemala) seem to do much of the dirty work in the U.S in places like NYC where I used to live, farms in Texas and middle America, etc.
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Re:/r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrifi... by mantas on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @09:55AM (#30259087)
Depressing wages by importing modern strike-breakers is another issue.
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