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Coulter: One weird trick to raise minimum wage
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This is bullshyt, because wages haven't kept up with productivity across all sectors. Teachers, engineers, Nurses wages haven't kept up with the gains in productivity. But blame illegals breh.
theworldismine13
God Emperor of SOHH
This is bullshyt, because wages haven't kept up with productivity across all sectors. Teachers, engineers, Nurses wages haven't kept up with the gains in productivity. But blame illegals breh.
she isnt talking about illegal immigration
I cant even @ these guys. I comment in threads all the time without actually reading the OP 
@ these guys. I comment in threads all the time without actually reading the OP
theworldismine13
God Emperor of SOHH
nah the article is about how legal immigration effects wages, as anybody that actually reads it can clearly see
Why introduce illegal immigration in the article?
Wage vs gains in productivity affects everyone. The gains from increased productivity go to Capital owners and not to wage earners- across the board. From low skill workers to college educated professionals.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/s...ductivity-climbs-but-wages-stagnate.html?_r=0
Keep falling for tricks pitting wage earners from one class vs wage earners from another class brehs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/s...ductivity-climbs-but-wages-stagnate.html?_r=0
Keep falling for tricks pitting wage earners from one class vs wage earners from another class brehs.
Jhoon
Spontaneous Mishaps and Hijinks
Until the majority decides that the folks who work at the company is more productive than the folks in the boardroom, we will continue to settle for our pittance. Capital owners arent the problem, its the labor who believes he is the capital owner thats causing all the confusion. Folks would rather have a 401k than have a pension. Thats the problem.
theworldismine13
God Emperor of SOHH
she mentioned illegal immigration, how you interpret that as meaning the article was about illegal immigration is beyond me
theworldismine13
God Emperor of SOHH
i dont know how anything in that article is counterpoint to the coulter article
what logical reason is there to think that with the american worker under wage pressure it would be a good idea to bring in millions more legal immigrants on top of legalizing 11 million illegal immigrants?
explain to me how you are going to address inequality while also advocating bringing in millions of new workers? unless im missing something wouldn't the law of supply and demand also increase wage pressure on the worker if you are bringing in millions of new workers into the system
The problem is, this is not an immigration issue. It's a structural issue in relation to wealth distribution. If low wages were a product of immigration as the article claims, then depressed wages vs productivity gains would only affect low skill positions. This is not the case. What we have are low wages when compared to gains in productivity across the board regardless of skill level or education of the workers.
Blaming immigration is myopic at best and reeks of anti immigration sentiment at the worst.
theworldismine13
God Emperor of SOHH
wages have many factors, not just one, the number of immigrants is one of the factors, its intellectually dishonest and just plain stupid to NOT study how immigration effects wages, the notion that you shouldn't is just politics
and immigration has been shown to effect the wages of low skilled workers, specifically, that has been documented
why are people that are concerned inequality trying to ignore a factor that has been shown to decrease wages of low wage workers
why are liberals and corporations trying to convince everybody that immigration has nothing to do with wages when it clearly does have an impact, hmmmmmmmmm
Look it here fukk boi, The gist of the article that you posted was claiming that immigration was depressing wages because of the influx of low skilled immigrants. I am asking if that was the case, then why are wages stagnant across the board including wages for highly educated and highly skilled workers?