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LaminatorX
on Thursday February 27 2014, @03:30AM
from the Xenophobia:-the-Universal-Language dept.
from the Xenophobia:-the-Universal-Language dept.
fx_68 writes:
"A sharp rise in the foreign population has ratcheted up racial tensions. Does Singapore have a problem with xenophobia? It seems that barely a month goes by these days without news reports highlighting friction between Singaporeans and foreign workers in the tiny multi-ethnic city-state."
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Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Appalbarry on Thursday February 27 2014, @03:58AM
The natives in every country are always resentful of anyone who comes into their country and takes away jobs
Well, except for sub-minimum wage janitorial, agricultural, and housekeeping jobs.
Of course in Canada they have a booming expansion on that idea: bring in cheap Chinese miners instead of training and hiring "expensive" Canadian ones. Or, even better, bring in cheap Filipino workers to work the drive through windows at Tim Horton's coffee shops.
Seven percent unemployment, and steadily falling average wages, and we're supposed to believe that there's no-one in the country who would do these jobs?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by edIII on Thursday February 27 2014, @06:21AM
They're right though. Nobody will do those jobs precisely because they don't pay living wages. They literally can't do the jobs because it's not a sustainable way of life.
The immigrants *can* do it precisely because their way of life and standards of living are dramatically lower and similar to their countries of origin. Combine that with a culture that allows entire families jammed into small housing, or multi-family inside barely single-family, and cultures that are more "cooperative" and you have a recipe whereby they *can* make do with less. It's a skillset they possess in abundance, and I don't demean them in any way for it. Western civilization has seem to have lost the whole idea of community and family.
The corporations argument is perfect and correct. They can get it done cheaper, and they are paying what the job is worth.
Real tragedy is the long term effects on society by operating that way which will only create a race inevitably towards the bottom in which people are not getting paid anymore, unemployment actually increases, and those greedy people at the top making the decisions find their way of life finally impacted. Just far too late for them to change it back.
They leave the country and escape to another with money.
Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.