The official discourse repeats that mass migration is necessary to fill positions that locals reject. However, this narrative hides an uncomfortable reality: it is a system that cheapens labor, worsens conditions, and keeps everyone, migrants and natives, trapped in low wages and reduced labor rights.
Automation and robotization: the technical solution nobody applies 🤖
Current technology allows for the robotization of repetitive and dangerous tasks in agriculture, logistics, or cleaning. Robotic arms, harvesting drones, and autonomous sorting systems exist that eliminate the need for cheap labor. But instead of investing in these solutions, the preference is to import workers with reduced rights. The result is a two-tier labor market where innovation is used to surveil, not to liberate.
The cheap trick: everyone poorer, but very solidary 🍊
So the master plan is to bring people in to do jobs nobody wants... paying them less than they're worth. Then, the business owners rub their hands, the politicians pat themselves on the back, and the long-time workers see their wages stagnate. It's like organizing a party where everyone brings the drinks and then the host takes the cash box. A very profitable solidarity, especially for those who don't have to pick strawberries in the sun.