This is pretty standard actually. Wal Mart has had this sort of thing for a long time. The solution to the labor problem for laborers is de-globalization. If companies are forced to use workers in their local economy then those workers can bargain and even unionize. If there is a never ending supply of labor because of immigration, and in many cases it's possible to move the work itself, then laborers will never have any bargaining power and it will forever be a race to the bottom in terms of worker conditions and compensation.
The future I imagine is one where because the left is unhinged and doesn't feel a need to make sense, the ideas of communism and socialism are eventually going to become discredited to the point that only those who are unable to work entirely take them seriously. Businesses will spend significant amounts on security, and security analysts, and ultimately we are headed towards a kind of corporate feudalism. Acquire currency and stocks while you can, cause one day if you try to unionize you'll be shot by Pinkertons.
I gradually grow to dislike the far left more all the time. "No borders, no walls, no USA at all." That's their motto, yet what can corporations do in such circumstances? Endless free movement of people means there is no reason to value any particular individual or group of individuals. No investment. "You can't do the work without training? Go away. If we have to we'll go to Bangladesh and we'll hire a dude who has been doing this for 20 years and a translator for him before we even consider something like getting a training program to teach a local how to do this. Go back to your mud hut you dirty American."
A global labor marketplace is disgusting and obscene. Immigrants are a major factor in the decline of unionization. You can hire illegals, or new arrivals in a never ending churn along with a few locals as long as we keep getting more people. No reason to invest in individuals or communities. Somewhere out there, there is someone that knows how to do the job and is desperate and we'll find him. Cesar Chavez used to organize biker gangs to go down to the border to beat illegal immigrants trying to enter with chains. Now he's a leftists icon, but his actual actions or views cannot be acknowledged in a modern context. The current left makes no logical sense, and threatens to undermine all of it's ideals, which I believe will solidify a developing dystopic corporate feudalism.
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