From Twitter:
No immigrant has taken your job. You were laid off by a capitalist who required cheap labor and took advantage of that immigrant to increase his profits, and nothing makes him happier than to hear you blame the immigrant and not him.
The replies to the tweet say these kinds of things:
It seems I see many people who do not want a job. They want a pay check. I have worked more than 40 hours all my life because I want more . One of the local motel owners told me for his ten jobs he has had more than 100 employees come and go in a year.
If the immigrant wasn't here, he couldn't have taken the job in the first place...
No immigrant has taken your job. You were laid off by consumers requiring cheap products. Ethics are complicated, and politics not their interest. Nothing makes these consumers happier than shopping, but they don't have money to buy the expensive things.
Ppl at companies who hire immigrants say that the immigrants are better employees. They show up on time, work hard, listen to instructions, don't complain about the job or the weather or anything else, call out less and aren't looking at their phones all day.
No one wants a job. We want to spend our time pursuing activities that make us happy, hobbies that we enjoy and spending time with those we love. Just you need a job to be able to afford to do those on what little spare time we have left
It seems to be a snapshot of our political discussions these days. The first is a "personal/anecdotal truth" that is irrelevant to the bigger picture. The second is true, but misses the point (changes the subject) of the systemic nature of immigration. The third places the blame on consumers "requiring" cheap goods as the true culprit (which is strange... because I would really like cheaper fuel, but that doesn't happen magically), the fourth blames the "native" employees.
All of which proves the point of the initial tweet which is about rich capitalists who are happiest when the workers blame EACH OTHER.
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