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Old 08-04-2023, 11:17 AM   #7615
CliffFletcher
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When the market alone 'finds' the cost of labour it results in those at the top getting much more and everyone else getting less. Because the market isn't dictated by some magical invisible hand. Rather, it's manipulated by the wealthy.
And one of the ways they manipulate it when labour gets too expensive for their liking is lobbying government for higher immigration rates and ever-increasing numbers of temporary foreign workers.

Politics have gotten very strange indeed when the left shrugs off systemic, institutionalized measures to suppress the value of low-skilled labour because questioning immigration rates has become coded as right-wing.
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