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by ajsnigrutin 1699 days ago
There is always someone from some shithole country who's willing to do the work cheaper than you.

I live in a small european country, and literally every foreign worker is lowering the wages of all the local workers - because why offer higher pay to get a local, if you can get some cheap foreigner to do it at minimum wage? And i'm talking about legal workers... if you take in account illegals, that are willing to work below minimum wage, the situation gets even shittier for locals.

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You weren't talking about legal workers, you were specifically talking about, this is an exact quote, "illegals working below minimum wage". That's what I was responding to. If you also have issues with people "from some shithole country" employed, working, and paid fully in accordance with your own country's laws and regulations, that's a different discussion, in that case the employers and employees are all doing what's expected and encouraged by your country; this is your country giving them and you a signal that your own expectations are unrealistic.
Yes, and in the secon post I was talking about both legal and illegal, and both of them destroy the labour market for the locals.... and in both cases, opponents to imigration (legal economic or illegal) are branded as nazis.
Is it all opponents of immigration that are branded Nazis, or is it just those that regard foreigners as sub-human and refer to their countries as shitholes?
I never said subhuman. But yes, many do live in shithole countries. And I'm saying that as someone who lives and works in the balkans.