Holy fuciking shit what's wrong with people
Indifference
Indifference is just a tool they use - the root cause is Greed.
They hate immigrants, but love slave labour. Then use immigrants "taking jobs" (what the farm owners actually want, because slaves are very profitable and locals would never do that work at that wage) to rile up the population to vote for Conservative governments, who often don't change the influx of immigrants but who does love to lower taxes and turn a blind eye to labour abuses.
The cruelest part of late stage capitalism is that these immigrants would probably have enjoyed a better life back home.
Sure many are refugees escaping violence or truly desperate conditions.
But many are also normal-ass people that were sold the lie of the Western/American dream. People that struggle to learn English in adulthood (much harder than as a child), have no specialized degree or skill, and no family in the states.
People that could have joined the normal working class at home with less debt, less stress, and less discrimination and led mostly normal lives in their own culture.
Sure the Western consumer has nice electronics and Nike shoes, etc. But everyone seems to be in denial about the impending collapse of the entire economy and how dire the lives of the workers are right now.
It’s going to be a rough century and it’s only getting started.
I disagree. Look at Adolf Eichmann. He was part of the leadership that organized the holocaust. What is kind of terrifying is that he was pretty much a desk worker. When he first appeared to the public during his trial the public assumed he would be this terrible human being. However, just by looking at him you wouldn't think it was a criminal or mass murder. He was a generic guy who should've had basic morals but didn't.
I am not sure what point you are trying to make, or how it relates to my comment/the article?
Even if we're talking about someone who simply lacks basic or any morals, that would make them even more susceptible to Greed.
Especially when using a system specifically designed to provide them with vulnerable people who are mostly hidden from public and given less wages and rights, don't know local laws, and are incredibly desperate.
What a convenient coincidence, heartless Greed finds itself flush with unlimited desperate workers. Again.
Rinse and repeat for every other Westernized nation in the world.
Canada and the US are exactly the same. And nobody in either gov't is doing anything to change it.
Profits over people every time.
This is Italy: racial discrimination, labor exploitation, inexistent law enforcement.
They're merely retvrning to tradition, although the ancient Romans weren't nearly as racist.
although the ancient Romans weren't nearly as racist.
I beg to differ considering anyone that wasn't roman was a "barbarian" to them. They didn't judge you on skin color like people do nowadays, but they were still xenophobic and racist as fuck.
Ironic username!
They didn’t judge you on skin color [...] but they were still [...] racist as fuck.
I don't understand which definition of "racist" you're using here, but OK. Romans didn't care what colour you were, as long as you were educated and spoke good Latin. They even had two Maghrebin emperors.
They definitely cared
My parents tell stories like these about the Pennsylvania coal mines from last century. They would just drop the person alive or dead on thier front porch with thier last paycheck pinned to them.
I feel like Italy is known for brutality
Well thats why you allow immigration, for an abusable cheap workforce
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