Yeah, wages should have gone up. That was the whole idea - revitalize the working class by making jobs more dear. They'd be forced into paying more. But now we see that that was never the plan, capital is just going to use its power to nullify the result. The people are really screwed. They used electoralism in 2016 to vote for their interests, and in 2019 they even voted Tory as Labour were dead-set against Brexit and at any rate abandoned the working class in favor of sneering at them. And this is what we get: we want foreigners to do the work for cheap!
If there's one thing capitalists hate, it's paying fair market price for labor.
I apologize for the stupidity, but the ONE copium I had when Brexit passed was "well, at least that might mean that jobs will be more valued."
I was played like a damn fiddle.
Yeah, wages should have gone up. That was the whole idea - revitalize the working class by making jobs more dear. They'd be forced into paying more. But now we see that that was never the plan, capital is just going to use its power to nullify the result. The people are really screwed. They used electoralism in 2016 to vote for their interests, and in 2019 they even voted Tory as Labour were dead-set against Brexit and at any rate abandoned the working class in favor of sneering at them. And this is what we get: we want foreigners to do the work for cheap!