Thoughts from Eric Raymond:
Today's big beef is between tech-success maximizers like @elonmusk and MAGA nationalists who think the US job market is being flooded by low-skill immigrants because employers don't want to pay competitive wages to Americans.
— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) December 26, 2024
To be honest, I think both sides are making some…
Having worked with immigrants from a couple of dozen countries, I’ll take a motivated immigrant employee over a citizen that thinks I owe him a “living” wage. Around my area, immigrants are a major force in construction and agriculture. An increasingly in white collar offices.
You want to straighten out immigration? Stop paying citizens to sit on their butts on one hand and penalizing them for improving on the other. “I don’t want a raise because I’ll lose my benefits” is all too common. And someone that won’t climb the first ladder rung never gets to the second or tenth.
I don’t know the tech world from the link. The H2S agg workers brought in cannot change companies or improve themselves beyond the fruit picking or whatever they were specifically brought in for.
“Stop paying citizens to sit on their butts on one hand and penalizing them for improving on the other. “I don’t want a raise because I’ll lose my benefits” is all too common.”
The social safety net is specifically designed as a gill net. That’s a feature and not a bug for those wishing to give faceless government bureaucrats significant say into an individual’s actions.