Nice stereotype man. Again, I am Swedish and I consider myself a leftist. Can you argument and not resort to ad hominem?
How is it a fallacy when it is real?
Here is an example from the building sector here:
The Vaxholm Conflict
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2006/06/swed-j27.html
TL:DR Building company wanted to employ Latvian workers at a lower rate of pay than Swedish workers.
I, personally, was also affected when Polish workers where just plain cheaper in IT so they fired all of us.
Now, I of course blame the companies, the capitalist systems, but I also blame the people. It is only human.
> I, personally, was also affected when Polish workers where just plain cheaper in IT so they fired all of us.
How did that go, for the company? Transferring knowledge about a large software project can be hard ... Almost impossible if everyone gets replaced at the same time?
(I wonder if you were building software or doing more sysadmin things)
Workers and companies will move toward the money. That's a constant. Here's the fallacy: we have only ourselves to blame. We are the voters in these republics. We can set the rules of who gets to come, who gets to work and how they should be treated. The citizens are the only check on this capitalist, free-market system.
We voted Sweden into EU thinking that the Swedish model would persist within. That was false and we had to let the flood of cheap labor in.
The union hostile organization "Svenskt Näringsliv" and companies wanted this of course and lobbied for it. Including calling people in the union racists for not wanting to wage dump.
And high skilled workers should get to come and work, no strings attached. The fact that some people complain of facing legit competition in such high-wage jobs and even call themselves "leftist" is quite sad. I suppose that when you're that privileged, actual equality feels like oppression.
How is it a fallacy when it is real?
Here is an example from the building sector here: The Vaxholm Conflict https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2006/06/swed-j27.html TL:DR Building company wanted to employ Latvian workers at a lower rate of pay than Swedish workers.
I, personally, was also affected when Polish workers where just plain cheaper in IT so they fired all of us.
Now, I of course blame the companies, the capitalist systems, but I also blame the people. It is only human.
How is it a fallacy when it is real?