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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
It’s not just a left problem. How many people do you know that believe minimum wage jobs should be “stepping stones” for teens or shouldn’t be a career? What are their politics? How many do you know believe it’s ok for educated immigrants to be relegated to minimum wage jobs or hire undocumented immigrants for cheap labour (we know one!)? What are their politics? How many executives and hiring professionals require increasingly higher levels of education and work experience for entry level jobs? Do you think they’re all leftists?
The American Dream is not short for the ability of skilled foreign workers to come over and fill higher paying jobs in specific sectors. The American Dream is the idea that class doesn’t matter, that everyone should have equal opportunity for prosperity, upward social mobility, and success. It’s the idea that people are not limited by circumstance, but by ability. We know that isn’t true. You just admitted it wasn’t true when you questioned how many women, Black people, and Latinos were in STEM. Are you saying they’re simply less able? Upward social mobility is declining. The wealth gap is widening. You cannot change what the dream was supposed to be and say it has been fulfilled. It hasn’t. It’s a fantasy.
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I'm a women of minority too. I'm measured in society by if I have a degree, what my degree is, if I'm an executive, if I'm on boards. You hear it all the time, there are only 5-10% women on boards and on executives. Everything it now a statistic and a measurement of how BIPOC is doing. I'm a statistic. I'm representing. That's a push from the left, which is good so I can't see how you're saying that social upward mobility is declining. The right could care less about any of this, they would keep a 12 white man boardroom if they could.
But it can create other problems as not 100% of the people can socially move upward and leftist policies want to protect those left behind too. However, there still has to be competition, business still have the hire the best.