Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "The Issue I've Been Avoiding" video.

  1. Sorry, but you're wrong. Who got all the millions of QE before during and after during Covid? It wasn't migrants. It was corporations and plutocrats, your employers. And they didn't put up your wages. But the prices of houses went up as people with cash from their investments bought houses and competing with each other pushed the prices up and up and up, and priced you out of the market. Why can't you get well paying jobs is that companies make more money by speculating on the stock market by manipulating their stock prices, rather than investing. Why do you thing the stock market is going up and up while your wages aren't? They don't need more people except in the jobs you are unlikely to do. And Technology as well. Just look at the job market. And the economy? What's the biggest sector in the UK economy? Financial Services, which is so profitable that they can invest in algorithmic investment programmes, and other computing that removes jobs. They only need people to program those. They don't need backroom clerks, they don't need counter clerks, they don't need branches. They don't need big HQs in Canary Wharf, because the computer can do it all. They don't need as many workers any more to make their money. And it's the same in almost all service industries. Clerical workers are a dying breed and the starting wage is beginning to be minimum wage. Most of the work is computerised, and 1 person can do the work 9f 3 people. Where are those jobs? Falling off a cliff, or being paid lower. Migrants didn't pay that. And the joke is a loof the profits being made don't stay here, because a lot of foreign investment send those profits back home. Blue collar manufacturing jobs are another dying breed. Not only is manufacturing a tiny part of the economy - only 15%, and those jobs are disappearing. And guess what? Brexit accelerated that decline because instead of pitching at the high margin low hanging fruit in Europe, we're trying to compete with economies that are able to undercut us in labour costs. That, and their countries have plenty of cheaper workers because they had more children. And they got those because we wanted cheaper goods. Migrants think their going to come here and get rich. Nope. They're suffering as much, and sometimes, even worse than you. as you. They have 2 or 3 jobs. Even the Uber drivers are using 2 and 3 apps at the same time to get fares. The UK economy for workers is shrinking. Not for investors and the asset wealthy. Migrants aren't to blame. And if and when you get rid of them, watch how worse things will get. Technology is coming for your job, and employers very rarely train people anymore. Only certain sectors still offer apprenticeships, and you can't live on that money independently, because legally they can pay apprentices below minimum wage. Even today, a training firm is offering apprenticeships for classroom assistants, who normally get paid minimum wage any way. And the pressures are so bad in schools not only are they having difficulty attracting and retaining classroom assistants they're having the same trouble with teachers in the state sector. They're leaving to work at Aldi. So, honestly, it's a lie that migrants are coming here for your jobs. The only sectors expected to grow in the UK is computing and social care. The first is academic, and the second is providing personal care to elderly people. Not working class jobs. And not white collar jobs either. So, it's bad for miggrants. It's bad for you in the same way. For the Sam e reason. So by all means blame migrants, and when they're gone, who are you going to blame then? The poor, the sick, and the elderly? And when they're gone, who then?. Gary's 100% right.
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