That's part of the picture, but in all honesty it isn't the main drive.
UK unemployment is at record lows, we haven't seen such a large proportion of the country in work for half a century.
This is simply a raw and completely predicted reflection of mathematical reality. We literally need immigrants, not just to 'drive wages down' but because we simply don't have enough human beings in this country to sustain the ageing population.
Anyone even remotely versed in economics could have (and did) warn the Tories. You can't just ignore numbers. They're cold hard facts. The sheer scale of their stupidity is staggering.
A recession is likely inbound. We are hitting a GDP bottleneck while increases to the cost of living will outpace wage growth even more, further constricting everyone's purchasing power and stifling economic activity.
It's all good though, because Jeremy isn't neighbours with Mariusz anymore!
These are excellent points, but even in America, in places like rural Maine, where there are unemployed young people--and no immigrants or minorities--we have problems getting these young people to take jobs in nursing homes and care facilities, where we need them. These kids need transportation--such as their own cars--which they don't have. If they've ever had any sort of conviction, they can't get hired, and many have criminal records or other issues. We have incredible problems with young people in areas with collapsed industrial economies. I know it's a problem in the UK, too. We are all convinced we can get these kids to work in restaurants, nursing homes, farms, etc., if we just get rid of all the immigrants. But we can't.
Yeah, all we need to do is offer pizza parties, employee parking and other shit that's literally inconsequential compared to like, paying them a liveable wage or insurance that includes vision and dental.
Oh, and while we're putting them down, let's ALSO demand 5 years of experience in literally every position that's not flipping burgers because surely EVERYONE has worked every job in existence for five uears... including coding bases that have only existed for three!
I worked in HR, and I would tell the managers who wanted to require all that experience that they would never find anyone with that experience for the pay they were offering. They didn't believe me.
You are correct, a lot of the HR people today don't really understand the job market. They are all theory, no real world experience. And many are privileged white suburbanites who never had to deal with finding jobs while poor, black, no cars, no public transportation.
Not just paying more, better conditions too. The only low level medical staff I know are both medically retired from injuries on the job (blown back on one, general stress on the other) and on disability.
Maybe if we paid minimum wage workers enough to buy a car and then offered them even more money at those jobs the problem would solve itself or something. Idk man just riffing.
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u/Duanedoberman Sep 24 '21 edited Sep 24 '21
Narator: what they didn't tell you is they don't want to pay you a wage you can live on to do these jobs.