• bluewing@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Sadly, it’s a chicken and egg situation. You can’t get a better job because you have no skills employers will pay more for. And you can’t very easily find a way to get those skills because you would get deported because you are somewhere illegally.

    It makes for a complicated problem to solve. And I don’t have an answer other than to say that it’s on the first generation to make it so the following generations climb the ladder upwards.

    • orrk@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      you somehow managed to make national wealth inequality into a strictly personal issue.

      so the solution is: you stop pretending like these people are all evil, let them work in America, but also force employers to pay a proper wage.

      it’s also hilarious to pretend like Guatemalans coming to the US to work farms and construction are learning skills to get better pay back home.