been seeing a lot of variations on this take recently - it’s one of the most common pro-immigrant sentiments and also one of the worst - the line that says we should welcome migrant workers because working class Australian/British/US etc citizens are too spoilt or lazy or consider themselves too good to do those jobs.
Like it comes from a (sort of) well meaning place, they’re often trying to say that migrants aren’t criminals or lazy or whatever… but aside from valuing people according to their productive ‘worth’, valourising menial, difficult work as some kind of moral virtue and attacking working class people for not being exploited enough, the most important thing missing from that take is the reasons why working class citizens don’t do these jobs.
It’s not because working class Australians/Americans/Brits etc are too good for it - it’s that employers deliberately don’t employ people that they might actually have to pay properly - wage theft is fundamental to the business model
But somehow it always gets framed in terms of working class people’s choices - what the migrant is “willing to do” and what the American won’t. Poor migrants can’t choose more attractive work, and the working class citizens can’t “choose” to work for less than minimum wage. It’s the bosses who make the choice, it’s about what they are “willing to do”. This is how they want it.
The American government makes their home countries unbearable then American capitalists exploit these people’s desperation and give them unsafe, slave wages jobs that they can’t give to other non incarcerated Americans
