• chrischryse@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Aren’t the jobs being “taken” by immigrants ones Americans don’t want to do? How tf that make sense

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      2 days ago

      “Jobs Americans don’t want to do (at the price point the business is offering)”

      So its hard to get an IT professional to work at job at $15/hr in the US. Easier in Southeast Asia. Consequently, we outsource a ton of IT work overseas.

      Similarly, construction work is dangerous and exhausting. Hard to find young people to do the work at a $25/hr price point, until you start importing a bunch of very desperate 20-something migrant laborers.