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Re:Immigration has remade the U.S. labor force by pif on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @04:38AM (#41443289)
> In the 70s-80s-90s an uneducated worker could support

Then the entire West started buying cheap from China and imposing rigid environmental constraints locally, and manufacturing jobs left forever.

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Re:Immigration has remade the U.S. labor force by orwin on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @07:20AM (#41444331)
Also we still had gas and oil from the north sea. Since the production peaked, energy is expensive, thus everything is.
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