Schroedingers_Cat on Nostr: I grew up in the midlands, the industrial heartlands. My dad was an engineer - ...

I grew up in the midlands, the industrial heartlands. My dad was an engineer - skilled manual work.

And what companies did around there in the 1970s-80s was deskill a lot of jobs (eventually including my dads). They got machines that could do them and cheap labour to help the machines.

They designed away the skilled work.

And so people took the work there was for significantly lower wages. This included immigrants, who were always prepared to work for semi-slave wages.

Then they sent the work overseas.

The reason there are no jobs is simple: capitalism. Not immigrants.