mekka okereke :verified:
The mayor of NYC is going to South America on a "fact finding mission," to understand why migrants are here.
What will happen when he discovers that one of the biggest drivers is climate change? Will he then come back and be all in on the Green New Deal? Or will absolutely nothing change, and he'll still ask people to come back into the office, commuting unnecessarily, just to prop up commercial real estate prices?
Climate changes. Crops fail. People go hungry. People start walking North.
mekka okereke :verified:
I'm not a racist xenophobe. I like the global south. I love its people, their kindness and love for each other, and the rich tapestry of cultures.♥️
🤔 But if I was a racist xenophobe, and I didn't want yucky Black and brown migrants coming here, then I would strongly consider *checks notes* NOT making the global south uninhabitable by human beings.
I dunno, just a thought? Seems more practical than "Nah, ruin their climate! Then build a wall (fence) capable of blocking over a billion people!"
mekka okereke :verified:
And before anyone says anything "Great replacement" adjacent...
NYC already had the most migrant heavy workforce of any major city on earth. 44% of NYC employees were born in other countries. Almost half.
Have you been to New York? Haven't you noticed that you can get great Shakshuka, Birria, Hummus, Tibs, Laksa, Biryani, Confit, Dim Sum, Pho, Shawarma, Jollof, Panang, All'Assessina, at like midnight, in any borough of the city?
And yes, it's still one of the safest major cities. Relax.
mekka okereke :verified:
Related:
It's truly impressive how NYC can complain that its economy is failing because 400,000 NYC residents left the city for higher paying jobs and lower cost of living in Atlanta and Austin, depleting the NYC labor force and dooming small businesses...
And then without skipping a beat, complain that its economy is failing because tens of thousands of migrants seeking work, are coming to NYC looking for jobs, wanting to be part of the NYC labor force.
🙂🙃
Bruno Girin
@paul_ipv6 @mekkaokereke exactly. Within a 10 minute walk of my home I can choose to eat Spanish, Nepali, Sri Lankan, Indian, Persian, Italian, Chinese, Turkish, or fish & chips. And that's only the restaurants, I can also go to the pub and have Thai food or pie & mash.
I'm hungry after posting this 😄
Paul_IPv6
one of the charms of places like NYC, London, etc. is that you can walk down the street and hear dozens of languages. you can find an overwhelming variety of foods, see a huge array of different clothing. always puzzles me, the people that find this threatening and not fascinating.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
@mekkaokereke finally, there's this whole separate racist as fsck dimension of quote-unquote expats.
Somehow Black and Brown folks coming North to pick fruit nobody wants to pick are "economic migrants stealing jobs", but white dudes (like myself) going South to do high-paying jobs in local-but-externally-funded NGOs or local branches of huge multinationals are "expats."
I loathe this term. If anyone is an "economic migrant", it's the white expats hogging jobs local professionals should get.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
@mekkaokereke and then the same business owners complain that there is "not enough hands to do the work". 🙄
The solution here is to offer migrant labor force the same protections as local labor force has. That way migrant labor will not be cheaper.
But it's obviously "better for business" to drive this wedge between local and migrant labor, and have access to cheap, unprotected migrant labor.
I know you know this! But I felt it needed to be said for the benefit of others reading the thread.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
@mekkaokereke the whole "migrants are stealing jobs" thing is basically business owners trying to get cheap labor.
On one hand, migrant labor force is often not protected by the same regulations, unions, local social safety net as local labor force. So it's cheaper to hire (if kinda illegal).
On the other hand, same business owners turn around and tell the local labor force: "look, cheap migrant labor is stealing your jobs! you need to dismantle local labor protections to remain competitive!"
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