From: bill.sloman@ieee.org   
      
   On 27/12/2025 1:59 pm, john larkin wrote:   
   >   
   >> Everything he has actually done since he got into politics has increased   
   >> American income inequality. The people who voted for him  thought -   
   >> correctly - that the country wasn't doing enough for them - and made the   
   >> mistake of believing that he was going to change things in way that   
   >> would make their lives better. Trump will say anything that will get him   
   >> the deal he wants, and he's good at putting together plausible lies.   
   >   
   > The big driver of income inequality is immigration, legal and   
   > otherwise.   
      
   Nonsense. Immigrants have enough sense to spend at lot of time and take   
   a big risk to get jobs in countries that pay more for their services   
   than they'd get in their country of origin.   
      
   > Rich people get maids and dog walkers and lots of cheap employees.   
   > Working-class people get underbid and lose their jobs.   
      
   Not so you'd notice. There just aren't enough immigrants to make a big   
   difference.   
      
   What drives US inequality is an education system that works a lot better   
   for the children of the wealthy, and a manufacturing sector that prefers   
   to off-shore production so that they can keep on paying subsistence   
   wages to the people that they do hire.   
      
   Trade unions have never done well in the US, and it was noticeable in   
   the UK that US-owned firms would go to great lengths to avoid talking to   
   trade union officials.   
      
   Germany has a much more sensibly system.   
      
   --   
   Bill Sloman, Sydney   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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