Blame the fact that it's so difficult to immigrate legally yet an overwhelming number of businesses rely on cheap immigrant labor. This is a feature, not a bug, because they can pay the illegal immigrants less and abuse them without fear of reprisal because if the employer gets any attitude about it, they call ICE and have the worker deported and replaced with the next struggling desperate immigrant.

There is no illegal worker in the US that would rather be an illegal worker than a legal carded one. The system is stacked against them because it saves businesses money to do so.

[–] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget to save some blame for the CIA destabilizing South American governments and terrible living conditions for a huge percentage of the population.

[+] Xephonian@retrolemmy.com -13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I blame the idiots that think prosperity we enjoy here in the USA is some sort of unlimited resource and that we can just print money when we run out.

Go ahead, print more money. Hope you've already bought your wheelbarrow.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes, because naturally no other country in the world enjoys a similar level of prosperity without creating an underclass that they abuse for their profit.

We don't need to print more money, we have more than enough money. We just need to recirculate the money we do have. There is plenty of money in the USA for most citizens to live a comfortable life without exploitation, but 80% of that money is buried in the pockets of corporations and 15% of the remaining 20% is buried in the pockets of billionaires.