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0 pointshiram1128y ago0 comments

Except for the US citizens who now might have a job or even a bit of wage growth after 30 years of non-stop immigration from mostly low wage countries, with the ensuing wage arbitrage used by US businesses.

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craftyguy8y ago

You are completely wrong if you think no US citizen has gotten a job or not experienced wage growth in the last 30 years.

TheAdamAndChe8y ago

Individuals may do better than average, but the trend in the US has been a widening gap between the upper class and everyone else combined with stagnant wages[1]. This has been due to many reasons like outsourcing, (illegal) immigration, automation, dissolution of anti-trust legislation, and the trend away from unionization in most industries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle-class_squeeze

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craftyguy8y ago

You are completely wrong if you think no US citizen has gotten a job or not experienced wage growth in the last 30 years.

TheAdamAndChe8y ago

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle-class_squeeze

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