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Poor Americans are the most in need of the opportunity tech jobs provide. That's how they can become non-poor Americans.

Poor Americans are also the most vulnerable to unskilled immigration making them even poorer than they already are.

It's not that complicated.

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If they are vulnerable to unskilled immigration, that would imply that they are unskilled themselves. I don't see how they will be able to take advantage "opportunity tech jobs provide"--a highly skilled set of jobs.

I agree that poor Americans are vulnerable to unskilled immigration, but suggesting that highly skilled tech jobs are a solution is just not realistic.

Many poor people could make it into the middle class by learning to do skilled jobs if given the opportunity.

The number of opportunities is significantly reduced when companies have the easier and cheaper alternative of hiring non-Americans.

And those poor people that don't have the capability to become skilled workers can at least not be kicked while they're down.

> but suggesting that highly skilled tech jobs are a solution is just not realistic.

I went from homeless to six figures thanks to tech.

I think you are missing that tech is one of the few well paying industries that doesn't have socioeconomic gatekeeping with degrees.

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