I don't understand how one can be pro living wage and pro widespread immigration.

[guillaumeb]

27. Somewhat shaky logic here:

First, when you wrote:

The reality is that if one can't command a living wage from the labor market in today's world, the reason is that they are not particularly skilled and literally any human that is not severely developmentally disabled can perform the jobs that they are qualified for.
Case in point: The fast food workers demanding a raise. Literally anybody that isn't severely disabled can do that job.

you are making the case, without a shred of evidence, that low wage workers are unskilled and undeserving of a living wage. Apart from the terrible implication that you feel some workers do not deserve to live, what makes you think that all service workers have no skills?

Second, when you say:

The glut of supply of low skilled labor causes significant downward pressure in wages.

I would reverse this to say that, because the laws are so stacked against workers, employers are taking advantage of "right to work" areas to depress wages so as to increase their profits. You put the blame on workers, I put the blame on employers.

Third, your grandfather, and many other workers,

I

think about my grandfather, who was a low skilled worker that worked in a beer bottling plant. He was able to support a wife and child with a low skill job.

That was possible because the demand for low skill labor was very high due to a smaller pool of labor competing for low skill jobs.

was able to support a family because in the 1940s through the 1970s, levels of unionization were high. Workers were able to band together and demand a living wage.

The rich today enjoy wealth that was last seen prior to the Great Depression. Workers did not get less skilled, the rich got greedier.