• verdi@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    Supply and demand, increase the wages for those positions. Hiring foreign workers as an avenue to artificially keeping wages down is not a good policy. Also, hiring extra-EU workers because their visa status is linked to their work status is the most pure distilled human exploitation.

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      1 day ago

      I don’t disagree, but let’s assume the prices for all essential positions rise, wouldn’t they just get filled with people that do currently hold lower paid positions? Do we then also raise the wages for those?

      I agree though that raising wages for positions like nurse, teacher, medical doctor, garbage collector are highly needed and would lead to those positions being filled and specialists not going to other countries.