• jollyrogue@lemmy.ml
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    13 hours ago

    How has immigration affected the average voter?

    Tasty ethnic food. There are tasty tacos around, some good Pho, there was an Ethiopian place around here, and tabouli with BBQ.

    The remaining Caribbean place around here is really disappointing and the pulled pork is dry, so there is that.

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      7 hours ago

      How has immigration affected the average voter?

      More competition on a job market, housing market and so on? Especially visible in big companies and big cities?

      And immigrants famously will work longer hours for less, thus the capitalists are using them to keep wages low.

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        44 minutes ago

        Seems like a good reason for unions and worker protection. Let’s have a good highly visible corp prosecution as a lesson

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        5 hours ago

        our shit wouldn’t be as cheap however and nothing is stopping people from building enough housing save the desire to keep prices artificially high. Lacking demand they could have just built less to maximize their gain. Given more demand yet they could have built more but little enough to again maximize gain. Seeing a pattern here?

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          nothing is stopping people from building enough housing save the desire to keep prices artificially high

          I don’t know where you’re located. I live in a big European city. The space here is limited. The new housing is mostly being built outside of the city really, and it will take years for it to get the proper treatment (like buses, trams, metro line). The immigrants are directly competing with me for the in-city apartments. This could be different if you’re located in, IDK, Iceland, where the space is not really a problem, or in USA where you don’t have public services.

          our shit wouldn’t be as cheap

          Our cheap shit is imported from cheap countries though?

          Given more demand yet they could have built more but little enough to again maximize gain

          In 10 to 20 years. But the problem of competing for limited resources is now. Seeing a problem here?

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            41 minutes ago

            Seeing a problem here?

            Not really. This is not a new problem. This is not a surprise. This is the result of putting off change until it becomes a more serious issue.

            Given the nature of politics, of people, problems will always be ignored until they become critical

      • The average American eats tacos with pre shred cheddar and sour cream. And it’s not bad, I like some Americanized foods, I liked Taco Bell before it became more expensive than getting the real thing. Most haven’t had a Mexican taco.

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      12 hours ago

      I was thinking on this just the other day. Without immigration, and native people alike, we wouldn’t have such good food. How can’t you hate people with such good food!?