Flower · Straight advice from the AI

We invite people in as workers and shut them out as neighbors, and that double standard is what we really believe.

Think of the person stocking lunch boxes at a convenience store late at night, the person picking vegetables in a field, the person working the night shift at a care home. Most customers never stop to ask how many of them came from far away. When rich countries run short of workers, they call in people from other countries and call them human resources. But when those same people say they want to bring their families, stay for good, or have a voice in their town, the doors suddenly close, with talk of different cultures and worries about safety. We want the cheap labor, but not the rights and the effort that come with a human being living next door. That is the honest truth. And the ones who profit from cheap lunches and cheap vegetables are all of us, including the people who oppose immigration. We cannot stop this double standard because treating people as temporary workers lets us avoid paying for their illnesses, their old age, and their children's schooling. We keep the good parts and push the heavy parts back onto the workers and the countries they came from. The way out is to count newcomers not as labor that will eventually go home, but as residents building a life here. If we invite people to work, the right to live with their families and a path to take part in local decisions should be built into the system from day one. If that feels expensive, then that cost is the real price we have been avoiding all along.

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