Poor People Make Great Immigrants

Capitalism loves the poor

indi.ca
5 min readAug 15, 2019
Workers looking at the Forbidden City. Beijing, 2012

I have been in business and the best thing you can have is a cheap and abundant labor. Whether you’re running a restaurant or Amazon, you need people, and the cheaper those people are, the more money you get to keep. Poor people work for cheap. They drive the whole economy.

If poor people want to immigrate your country, shut up and be blessed.

Poor People Make Everything

Poor people have made your clothes, your phone, basically everything you own that wasn’t stupidly expensive or ‘bespoke’. They have picked, handled, transported and probably made your food. They take out your garbage and keep your cities livable. They care for your children and your sick. They have also made all the fortunes you see — all the millionaires and billionaires — with their labor.

Literally look around the room you are in. Look around your body. Poor peoples hands have touched your clothes, they have built your furniture, your electronics, even your most sophisticated products. They have carried these items on and off ships, they have driven them through the night; they have waited around till you walked in to buy them. We are literally held and carried aloft by the labor of the poor, and we scoff at…

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Indrajit (Indi) Samarajiva is a Sri Lankan writer. Follow me at www.indi.ca, or just email me at indi@indi.ca.