The German public is now divided between the increasingly popular AfD party that calls for deporting immigrants and those who support Chancellor Olaf Scholz in wanting them to stay.
I agree with the main thrust of your post: mass immigration is occurring because of pressure from the business community. It's part of the globalist project:
- outsource jobs to low-wage countries
- insource low-wage labor for those jobs that, by their very nature, cannot be outsourced (services, construction, agri-business, etc.)
I disagree when you argue that the business community has a long-term plan to divide the working class. Sometimes I wish they had a long-term plan. They would then understand the eventual result: a crisis of under-consumption, like the one back in the 1930s. On the one hand, wages are kept below the true market value of labor through the decline of collective bargaining and through undercutting from immigrant labor. On the other hand, prices are kept above the true market value of goods and services through the growing concentration of economic power. This imbalance between capital and labor is all the more serious in an inflationary environment, where wage increases happen much more slowly than price increases.
We probably won't have a depression like the one in the 1930s. We'll instead have a crisis of stagflation with declining living standards for the mass of the population.
Businesses have a “30-year rule.” If something won’t happen in 30 years, there’s no point in planning for it. Businesses do plan over shorter spans of time, and they will certainly exploit ethnic divisions if it’s to their advantage. For example, Chicago’s packinghouses used to hire black workers as “strike insurance”—if the white workers went out on strike, the black ones would still show up for work.
But I don’t believe that businesses push for immigration in order to fragment the working class. That sort of long-range planning isn’t in their DNA. They see immigration primarily as a means to cut labor costs or to keep them from rising. Increasingly, they also see it as a means to boost aggregate demand, particularly in housing markets.
If businesses really prefer a fragmented labor market, wouldn’t we see that preference in their overseas investments? Why are they investing so much in China and not in a more multiethnic society like South Africa?
Reference
Bonacich, E. (1976). Advanced capitalism and black/white race relations in the United States: A split labor market interpretation. American Sociological Review, 34-51.
Well, if you don't want to believe that the upper class tries to pit have-nots against have-nots, despite the evidence I showed you, then I guess you will not believe it. And yet, it's true. :)
I agree with the main thrust of your post: mass immigration is occurring because of pressure from the business community. It's part of the globalist project:
- outsource jobs to low-wage countries
- insource low-wage labor for those jobs that, by their very nature, cannot be outsourced (services, construction, agri-business, etc.)
I disagree when you argue that the business community has a long-term plan to divide the working class. Sometimes I wish they had a long-term plan. They would then understand the eventual result: a crisis of under-consumption, like the one back in the 1930s. On the one hand, wages are kept below the true market value of labor through the decline of collective bargaining and through undercutting from immigrant labor. On the other hand, prices are kept above the true market value of goods and services through the growing concentration of economic power. This imbalance between capital and labor is all the more serious in an inflationary environment, where wage increases happen much more slowly than price increases.
We probably won't have a depression like the one in the 1930s. We'll instead have a crisis of stagflation with declining living standards for the mass of the population.
If not a plan to divide the working class, then what is your explanation for all of the policies that I discuss at https://www.pdrboston.org/21st-century-divide-and-rule ?
Why do you think the ruling class censors the class nature of the "Israel/Palestine" conflict that I write about at https://www.pdrboston.org/israel-s-government-attacks-jews-to ?
Why do you think Israel's rulers (with U.S. backing) have been funding Hamas and working to keep it in power as I show at https://www.pdrboston.org/israel-funds-hamas-keeps-it-in-power ?
I could go on, but you get the drift, right?
Businesses have a “30-year rule.” If something won’t happen in 30 years, there’s no point in planning for it. Businesses do plan over shorter spans of time, and they will certainly exploit ethnic divisions if it’s to their advantage. For example, Chicago’s packinghouses used to hire black workers as “strike insurance”—if the white workers went out on strike, the black ones would still show up for work.
But I don’t believe that businesses push for immigration in order to fragment the working class. That sort of long-range planning isn’t in their DNA. They see immigration primarily as a means to cut labor costs or to keep them from rising. Increasingly, they also see it as a means to boost aggregate demand, particularly in housing markets.
If businesses really prefer a fragmented labor market, wouldn’t we see that preference in their overseas investments? Why are they investing so much in China and not in a more multiethnic society like South Africa?
Reference
Bonacich, E. (1976). Advanced capitalism and black/white race relations in the United States: A split labor market interpretation. American Sociological Review, 34-51.
Well, if you don't want to believe that the upper class tries to pit have-nots against have-nots, despite the evidence I showed you, then I guess you will not believe it. And yet, it's true. :)
Yes, the way to limit illegal immigration is to stop destroying the immigrants’ countries!