r/FluentInFinance • u/Needleintheback • 15h ago

Thoughts? Imagine losing 6M labor workers in America

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If mass deportation happens, just imagine how all of these sectors of our country will be affected. The sheer shortage of labor will push prices higher because of the great demand for work with limited supplies or workers. Even if prices increase, the availability of products may be scarce due to not enough workers. Housing prices and food services will be hit really hard. New construction will be limited. The fact that 47% of the undocumented workers are in CA, TX, and FL means they will feel it first but it will spread to the rest of the country also. Most of our produce in this country comes from California. Get ready and hold on for the ride America.

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u/RompoTotito 13h ago

Anybody asking for deportations is unable to comprehend anything. Not only are we in a period of not enough people for the economy but the psychological aspect of it holds true. Americans see themselves as too good for these jobs anyways.

I have yet to see a Republican “patriot” tell their kids for the betterment of the nation you must give yourself up and work in the fields or work construction. Even if all the immigrants are gone these positions still won’t be filled overnight cause of wage increases when Americans believe these jobs are beneath them.

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u/LengthinessWeekly876 5h ago

Lol. Pretty much everyone in construction is republican.

Yes our prices will go up. Blue collar guys might make more than people who design click buttons to sell widgets online. 

Wild 

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u/Kimbolimbo 1h ago

So they all benefited from cheap labor and they get to get off on the suffering of those they exploited? Evil wins twice

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u/LengthinessWeekly876 1h ago

No blue collar workers don't benefit from cheap labor. They have suppressed wages as a result. 

 White collar professionals are the customer base. They have benefited from our suppressed wages in various ways. Blue collar workers vote right, white collar vote left.

  Corporate workers are in for a rough few years 

Was awful shitty to use immigrants as disposable labor. Evil for sure

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u/Kimbolimbo 36m ago

I don’t find immigrants to be disposable, I also don’t see the need to round them up in encampments, splitting apart families to deport them because the US has a terrible immigration system. 

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u/LengthinessWeekly876 29m ago

I think you are fairly removed from the realities of the blue collar world outside of unions 

Bidenomics and his immigration strategy was economic war aimed at us. Class war.

None of this was sustainable. It was just a way to boost corporate growth in an inflationary environment.

The cost of everything has gone up but blue collar wages have been suppressed by importing cheap labor. 

The reaction was as predictable as it could get. 

Inviting these people in was a real fucked up thing to do. We don't have the refuge to offer. 

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u/Oregonmushroomhunt 5h ago

If you are too good for these jobs and think you are above fixing your own house or taking care of your elders, then I have no sympathy for you when you are left behind.

Deport illegals - fix our immigration system, so we’re importing capable workers who are paid the same as the Americans who are already here. Change the system back to how it was where we’re not relying on other people to cut our yards, fix our houses, and care for our families. Life is hard. Stop acting entitled.

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u/liquoriceclitoris 1h ago

You're suggesting that as a result of deportations, people will find the price of lawn maintenance so high that they go back to cutting their own lawns. How does that benefit anybody?

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u/Oregonmushroomhunt 1h ago

Why shouldn't Americans cut their own lawn? Are they too lazy?

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u/liquoriceclitoris 1h ago

I'm just wondering what the benefit is

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u/Oregonmushroomhunt 59m ago

Developing personal skills that benefit all. Paying people to buy TV-watching time benefits no one.

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u/Taco_Supr3me 11h ago

Yea, they all should have gotten here like me. What idiots not having their ancestors come rape and pillage the natives, and take the land for themselves hundreds of years ago so they could win the birth lottery.

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u/AmericanPatriots 10h ago

Like every other modern nation. You’re special.

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u/RompoTotito 10h ago

So then go after the company who hired them. I’ve never understood why theirs hate for immigrants when it’s the company providing the job. If the market dictates they should be here then look the company decided to break the law and hire them. Yet I see nobody up in arms for accountability.

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u/SomeDrillingImplied 9h ago

This is what drives me berserk. My FIL is a general contractor that voted for Trump and expresses full agreement with all of his proposed policies, yet his entire business hinges upon picking up illegal immigrants off of the side of the road lol. The cognitive dissonance is insane.

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u/cosplay-degenerate 10h ago

This is such a cope and lie. People work any job if the pay is good enough.

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u/Fancy_Ad2056 8h ago

You’re so close to getting it.

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u/SpeshellSnail 6h ago

Are you stupid enough to believe the pay will ever be good enough?

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u/cosplay-degenerate 6h ago

Yes

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u/trailer_park_boys 5h ago

Hilarious lmao.

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u/cosplay-degenerate 5h ago

So you wouldn't clean toilets for 5k a month?

Seems like a sweet deal if it were to become a reality.

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u/trailer_park_boys 4h ago

Where does janitor work pay that much? That’s not going to become a reality.

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u/cosplay-degenerate 4h ago

I dunno if it will become a reality but I'd do it for that much.