Quote Originally Posted by Alexander the Pretty Good
Being rather unfamiliar with the situation, I'll hazard a guess that your welfare state is killing the drive for work.
I doubt that, as they are working, but they choose to have low-paying, non-physical jobs instead. They choose to make 15 USD an hour instead of 20-25... And they're not paying any taxes either(if you don't make more than 6500 USD a year, you don't), so you can't blame that either... Our welfare state only kicks in when people are unemployed, when you're studying, you get a loan of about 1000USD a month, which isn't a lot to live for, so the drive for work is very high.

Quote Originally Posted by Alexander the Pretty Good
If we shipped you a few of our illegal immigrants, I'm sure they'd be willing to work for $20 USD an hour.
Those are the people we are already forced to use

@Haudegen: one of the people interviewed in the article, was a female dentist from Ukraine... She said that the reason she came here wasn't because of the money, it was sort of a health vacation to counter her own job, on which she was sitting all the time...

(Btw, it's 20-25 USD an hour, the usual pay at a grocery store is somewhere around 17USD I think)