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by seaal 594 days ago
I am indeed very worried about all these illegal immigrants taking our very important jobs.

When I order food delivery, get in an Uber, and drop off my laundry at the wash and fold I want an under-educated American!

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Do not insult a person’s honest earned livelihood that they work for to support their families.

There are tens of thousands of Americans who are forced to live in Trailer trucks or from their car who often do those sorts of jobs.

They just want an honest living and do not have the opportunities to get higher college education to land well paid white collar formal jobs.

That uber job is often their way to save up for their truck driving license so that they can move to a decent wage to get his/her kids a nice christmas gift, nutritious daily meals for their kids and other emotional needs.

To them, seeing their jobs being taken up by illegal immigrants for lower wages, no payroll taxes to pay, etc. is a very very very real issue to them and a zero sum game being played against their life.

This is such a goofy response. Are you aware that under-educated Americans need jobs, and in fact vote???
That's why we have surging high unemployment! Oh wait it's still lower than when George Bush was president.
People want prosperous livelihoods not just jobs. Do you think those working those low paying dead end jobs are just completely content with having zero mobility or financial security?

That uber driving might be living in their car but at least they are employed right??

if you are buying delivery food, taxis, and laundry services you are clearly an upper class net worth individual. surely you know what’s best for working class americans
Yes I'm a super high net worth individual with a household income of $60K a year.

It's called living in a city, I don't own a car or have a laundry machine.

A laundry machine today could be a risky investment as you don't know how many years it will last. My old flat had a machine that broke down (It was less than 6 months old) and there was a known problem with the model which was to do with the input pad to set the settings. Luckily it was under warranty, but even still the stop was fighting hard to replace it :/ (I think it was fisher and paykel, they used to be good but they moved the manufacturing base from New Zealand to overseas).
My take away from those kind of exchanges is that most people have no idea how other groups of people live