I just don't understand how a country can rely on, or why it should rely on, a steady influx of some cheap-labor underclass. It just doesn't seem sustainable. Just seems like a huge red flag, that you can't function without some exploited underclass. It creates a lot of misaligned incentives. What happens when the underclasses of the world stop being underclasses? What will you do then?
Maybe the elephant in the room is that we can't function or have our modern comforts without an exploited underclass. We have slaves to this day, as the Romans did, they just go by another name.
>What happens when the underclasses of the world stop being underclasses? What will you do then?
If there are no underclasses in the world then surely the vast majority of problems relating to wealth inequality have been solved -- why worry about such a far fetched positive situation?
Maybe the elephant in the room is that we can't function or have our modern comforts without an exploited underclass. We have slaves to this day, as the Romans did, they just go by another name.