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I'll bet that the non-English speaker is a lot cheaper to hire, and can't bargain for better wages, in any language - since being an immigrant - he probably needs the job to stay in the country ... That's the same 'real story' as with the H1-B visas (so beloved, by Elon and Vivek)... The real story is driving down wages for all - while exploiting a captive workforce - not performative virtue signaling, or finding workers with rare skill levels, unavailable in the domestic workforce. It's Class Warfare... And the working class are the ones losing.

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Yes that’s exactly right

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Welcome to the Revolution, Comrade! 😉

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I would question, somewhat, the concept of a traditional working class in Australia. The skilled workers are doing very well in Western Australia with jobs in mining that pay hundreds of thousands per year - in fact the mining jobs cause inflation simply because miners are well cashed and the big shops, which now have monopolies and have driven the smaller retailers out of business, drive their prices up as far as they think they can. I personally know a scaffolder who works on offshore rigs who has a mortgage of over AUD $1Million, and who supports three families with his income. Who is particularly affected is those people who do not really have the skills to participate in the economy -- the unskilled laborers -- these are really the people who generally are the working poor. And also, incidentally, in the current economic climate, those who run businesses, who find it difficult to find unskilled labourers who are reliable and who can speak and write English -- many of the white unskilled labourers are druggies and drunks unfortunately these days. There is a lot wrong in society. Structural changes put in place by a government that prays might be the only solution: prayer is the solution really. Pray for our countries.

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You, know…there was a time when America had a working class, as well … But the availability of cheap and affordable education (see: skilled workers) and affluent living standards - was seen by the (Luciferian Occultist) ruling class, as a bothersome impediment to top-down rule. And so the Trilateral Commission wrote a book called, “The Crisis of Democracy”, as I recall.

In it, they decided that all of these kids on campus, protesting against (what was then) pretty prevalent racism, and Imperialism and exploitation of the developing world (as with Vietnam etc.), and the curtailment of free speech, needed to be suppressed. So they decided to crush the middle class, by exporting their unionized manufacturing jobs abroad, and raising the costs of education through the roof…to the point where only the wealthy could afford it. Then they used those costs to motivate people to join the War (and Indoctrination) Machine (they simultaneously ended the draft, going to a 'poverty draft'), to receive the ‘benefits' of college tuitions, and increased access to employment, once separated from the Military.

The CIA had already flooded the streets and campuses and anti-war movement (blessed are the peacemakers) with a steady supply of drugs, which it sounds like you're seeing now, in Oz.

As all this occurred, wages overall held flat, or dropped, as costs rose - leading to increased reliance upon Babylonian credit schemes, and generally declining wealth and standards of living for most, while a small number had their wealth dramatically increased, particularly those employed to bring about these transformations to society.

I think my point is that things will not be forever, as you find them in Australia, now. The 4th Industrial Revolution - will mean many of those skilled jobs being done by AI and Robotics. So keep your eyes peeled.

While in some ways Australia serves as a test market for tyrannical policies to be applied in America - in some ways it sounds like you're just a few decades behind, in the program that's already been rolled-out, up here.

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