LogFAQs > #894291765

you're taking the analogy way too literally

the point i'm using the gif to illustrate is that middle class workers are losing out and are being told immigrants are to blame, when the reason they're losing out is companies have grown so large they can undermine the workers' negotiating power.

what would benefit workers is to demand the companies be forced to break up by the government, while instead they pointlessly quarrel with immigrant workers and allow the companies to consolidate further, reducing their capacity to negotiate wages even more

that the pie is growing is meaningless to those middle class workers as their wages have been stagnant since the 1980s.

changing the subject to specific scenarios such as rent control doesn't change that.
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