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I’m convinced its a “vast conspiracy.” to provide cheap american labor. Here me out. I know, it sounds crazy.

apposed to abortion, easy access to contraceptives, etc
cut funding for social support (welfare, snap, etc),
cut funding for education.
actively push for policies that decrease social mobility and increase income inequality
weaken unions
push stupid, petty laws (“Law and Order”, “tough on crime”)
leads to an increase in unplanned pregnancies and more kids than people would have chosen to have; this puts economic stress on that family and helps to ensure that the children remain at or fall below their parent’s economic standing. 2) and 3) reduce the chances that those children will become college educated. meaning they remain low-skill workers staffing places like amazon, uber, or working retail 4) keeps inflation going forcing people to continue working until they die. 5) keeps people from organizing and getting better compensation, or even just a safer place to work.

and my favorite. 6) ensures that all the desperate people created by 1-5 who step one toe out of line wind up in for-profit prisons where they’re used as a slave-labor force as the cheapest possible labor in the US.

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Lakija@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
www.newyorker.com/…/child-labor-is-on-the-rise

Apparently child-labor is on the rise. More kids, more money to make in their cheap exploitative labor. 14 states have proposed or enacted laws rolling back child labor age restrictions.

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- FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Oh. I forgot to add that to the list.
  
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SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If that’s the case, the conspirators are incredibly stupid.

It’s way easier to get cheap labor by simply loosening immigration laws.

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- phobox360@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You could argue that’s precisely why Republicans did fuck all to “fix” the “border crisis” they incessantly bang on about, when they were in power. Every time they were in power. Plus by doing nothing, they get to dehumanise migrants and use them as a weapon to terrify idiots into continuing to vote against their own interests.
  
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  - MountNDoU@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Any time the actually do enact policies that work to limit undocumented workers they find that the corporate class gets pissed off; they like having people they can threaten and treat as actual slaves. They know damn well what works to curb unauthorized immigration - holding employers who hire the migrants accountable.
    
    That cuts into their big money donors bottom line in two ways, 1. they have to hire workers who have at least a very basic understanding of their rights and demand wages actually in line with market value 2. They have to pay fines and deal with the public backlash for being criminals (not exactly the worst thing in their minds if we’re being honest cause their folks blissfully ignore things like criminal conspiracy or ethics provided their own the same team) but worse, they have to deal with the ‘unpatriotic’ label which tends to go further with the people who rabidly support the ‘solution’ to the issue they ignorantly latch onto as a means to continuously feed their rage addiction.
    
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- some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  It’s way easier to get cheap labor by simply loosening immigration laws.
  
  But that cheap labor would be “the wrong color.”
  
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- okmko@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I mean many on the right truly want a homogeneous race of citizens. That’s not mutually exclusive with cheap, undereducated labor.
  
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- ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Legal immigrants have rights and must be paid legal wages. Illegal immigrants will work for less, have no rights and won’t sue you.
  
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Leviathan@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I believe that you’re spot on. “Unskilled” labor and prison slaves is what they’re after.

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