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I agree with the post but it conveniently avoids the actual issue. They are blamed for:
I’m not saying that they do affect these negatively, but that these two subjects are making life harder for regular people. So when someone sees something like “immigrants don’t affect me”, they just assume the poster is rich enough not to be squeezed like the rest of us.
Capitalism gotta have its scapegoats or else it won’t work.
I'm poor as shit and I've never been affected by immigrants raising the cost of living or taking jobs.
Raising costs are caused by greedy business owners raising prices, and the lack of jobs is caused by greedy business owners only hiring skeleton crews and making them work harder for less.
Yes, my point was that even though educated people would agree, you would push the uneducated further with rhetoric like this.
Having said that, that’s not a problem with an audience such as us.