Rich Countries Are Becoming Addicted to Cheap Labor
https:// www.wsj.com /economy/business-immigrant-low-skilled-labor-addiction-bf009a83 Rich Countries Are Becoming Addicted to Cheap Labor
Are becoming or have been for decades...?
45Centuries?
20A few millennia, actually
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It's valuable for them to frame it as a recent problem, because then the solution is to just "go back to how it was a few years ago".
To frame it as a foundational problem of modern civilization means more disruption to the power balance.
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Becoming?
32Exactly what I was gonna say.
The only difference in recent years is that regulations have been loosened, allowing them to increase their abusive practices.
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are becoming
Unlike when?
15I recall hearing that already during the classical antiquity the Greeks and later the Roman could have invented steam engines (for reference of their technical skills see the Antikythera mechanism), but the abundance of cheaper slave workers made this economically infeasible.
8The Atlantic slave trade says what?
7paywall
2Paywalled article :|
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