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[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

First, immigration drives up housing prices because everyone needs it, and it can't be built overnight

Contrary to what they say on Faux News, caravanfuls of immigrants aren't let in overnight either. As for undocumented immigrants, the vast majority are Canadians and Europeans overstaying their visas and refugees who aren't rich enough to complete the legal process, neither of which will suddenly buy a shitload real estate.

Second, it drives down wages by flooding the labor market with a high supply of people desperate to take whatever is offered to them

Classic victim blaming and othering. Native born and naturalised citizens lose orders of magnitude more potential wages to wage theft than to exploited immigrants "flooding" anything. Another fallacious talking point, I'm afraid.

Rent goes up, and wages go down. That's the fault of the 1%, not immigrants looking to make a better life for themselves.

Oh good, you DIDN'T mean to victim blame, you just did it accidentally. Let's see if you can stay away from the right wing talking points for the rest of your comment, then!

The cherry on top is that were conditioned to respond to anyone who acknowledges this as a racist. If you want to avoid the label, you need to support tla policy that will push high rents higher, and depress low wages even farther.

Guess it was too much to hope for..

You don't come off as racist, you just come off as someone who, in spite of meaning well and knowing who's actually to blame, has fallen for some of the lies the billionaires and their pr machines use to make the discrimination more palatable to non-racist people.

The people at the top have a few economic levers they can push around to manipulate society reliably.

Including the dissemination of gaslighting and other insidious lies to fool even their enemies to help their cause, as you've just demonstrated yourself.

this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2023
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