It will be stopped when ordinary french people decide once again to do low profiled jobs. That train has passed. You can not outsource medical stuff, contructi9n and various crafts work. Simplier solution is that french state admits defeat of militant secularism which inclines to the fasism or other option will be materialisation of this letter.
With respect, I disagree. A economy should endeavour to up the value chain. I understand very well that as this process happens, citizens of that country don't want to do basic things like a taxi, a painter, a cleaner etc. The truth is they will do those jobs but expect higher wages. This means average citizens like you and me have be prepared to pay more for these services. If you pay enough your own citizens wil do these jobs.
This also has another effect. As wages go up for these basic jobs this encourages adaptation of technology to take the burden of those jobs. This is real value addition and helps all your citizens.
I give you one example of this. By 1990s all car washes in UK had gone automatic. The reason was labour was too expensive. Large companies sprouted like IMO that used high technology at their sites to wash your car. Everything was automatic and cost was £3.
Came late 1990s and we had huge influx of migrants in UK. Next thing on every unoccupied plot of land these hand car washes opened with a mob of guys doing everything by hand. Standard of wash tended to vary by place and even by day but on average I would say they were better then IMO autowashes particularly as the concern with damage to high quality modern paints by those rolling brushes. But the killer was they charged £3. Think about that.
The result was they put many of those auto places out of business. This is example of economic reverse gear. And this is not good even if at a personal level I as customer got my car hand washed. Typically these guys were being paid below legal wages and were ran by criminal rackets.
You want you economy to climb up causing increasing technology to enter every area of activity. In India they have 100,000s of men pulling rickshaws. This is hardly a good thing. It demonstrates that wages are so low on the bottom end in India that men are cheaper then animals at pulling leave alone a engine as means of articulation.
Is that what people want? I think some groups are behind this. What happens as workers demand higher pay and the employers push to create a alternate pool of cheap labour to keep wages low. This is where migration comes into this. That is why the ruling elites in the west have allowed inner cities in their countries to go through demographic change over the decades.
I give you a example close to home. I live in North England and in the hills of pennines there are lots of small mill towns. Horrid. Examples of Victorian squalor. Always were and still are. These mill towns grew around streams of water that was ideal for washing wool. The hills that are everywhere are only good for animal pasture and that means sheep everywhere. This gave birth to woolen industry. This was a dirty, filthy business. Workers died young inhaling the dust from the processing that went on inside these mills. Soon most of the worlds wool was being exported from these towns.
Typically the owners built a mill and then constructed row after of cheap terrace housing to crowd in their workers. I read that the average lifespan of the wool worker was 45 and they began the work by age 13-14 including girls. This is sort of industry that put the "Great" into Britain.
Post war and 1950s things had changed. The new generation did not want to work in those mills. As labour dried up wages went up and even then there were not enough workers willing to work in those disgusting mills.
This is when the mill owners approached UK government which arranged with Pakistan to bring in migrant workers. Soon entire mill towns were full of Pakistani workers and these mills again boomed returning huge profits. This was a rremarkable emerging social experiment playing out. Workers recruited from Pakistan with the poorest, most conservative, backward, illiterate demographies poured into these towns. Some of the slightly better of amongst them left soon after working in the hellish mills. That left only those who came from the most desperate situations. It might be harsh but these guys were the scrapings from bottom of the barrel in Pakistani society.
With 15 years of them arriving or about early 1970s these mills began to go bust and close down. The reason was countries across the globe like Taiwan, Argentina, China, Hong Kong and even Pakistan began to compete. Given their lower costs these mills closed down. Today almost all are shut down except for a few that make very high speciality wools using hi-tec computerized manufacture and products that cater to the top end of the market.
So what become of the mill towns? Mass unemployment. As the native English had left the squalor of the terrace houses for the newly built suburbs a sharp racial divide has come about. Over the past 20/30 years these communities have become feertile ground for Islamists.
This is not good because they now provide the fuel for the far right. Thus far the situation is stable but my fear is if this sort of thing continues which is result of what they call political myopia - that is in a 5 year election cycle political governments make decisions on a narrow 5 year window even if the results 20 years down the road are disasterous.
Note I am also a son of a migrant although I was lucky that my father came to UK as lawyer wanting to do his post-graduate studies so I was fortunate to have a privilaged upbringing. But I have to look at the issue objectively for the sake of our future generations.
I often defend my community because I can't allow far right narrative to gain ground but the fact is wqe have to find a holistic solution for the sake of all. Note that in differant regions of UK the same pattern is repeated. It could b e Sikhs, Black Afro-Caribreans etc etc. All have their own particulat issues.
For instance Islamists might be a issue in the Pakistani areas but if you got to London where the Afro-Caribeans have their 'hood' shooting, stabbing, mugging is rage. 70% of London stabbing or shooting happens within this community.
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