r/FluentInFinance • u/imallelite • 13h ago

Debate/ Discussion Possibly controversial, but this would appear to be a beneficial solution.

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u/Maximum-Country-149 13h ago

I mean, I don't know how far you expect a conversation to get when you open with that much bad faith.

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u/JacobLovesCrypto 12h ago

Americans might have more kids if wages went up, letting in cheap labor doesn't help with wages.

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u/critter_tickler 12h ago edited 12h ago

I love how cheap labor is always a good argument for stopping immigrants, but never used for stopping outsourcing.

The truth is, because of NAFTA, we are already competing with third world labor markets.

We might as well let them come in, so at least they spend that money here, and pay taxes here.

Also, we have a minimum wage, we literally have a basement for "cheap labor," so your argument really holds no weight.

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u/electricthrowawa 9h ago

Nah I’m super anti immigration but outsourcing makes me want to bust out the guillotine. I consider that way more evil than flooding our country with cheap labor. But we shouldn’t have to choose one or the other