Let's note that venture capital and the 'disruptive' start-ups they fund depend on rootless, often unqualified workers willing to undermine local economies, while providing convenience services to the professional class. Taxi and hot food delivery drivers are obvious examples.
Before that, Polish and other East European builders were impo…
Let's note that venture capital and the 'disruptive' start-ups they fund depend on rootless, often unqualified workers willing to undermine local economies, while providing convenience services to the professional class. Taxi and hot food delivery drivers are obvious examples.
Before that, Polish and other East European builders were imported to the UK to fix up, convert and extend urban properties, in order to make inner-city gentrification by the professional class possible. This type of building work is very labour-intensive in terms of net gains in habitable space.
See also the foreign labourers who built the London 2012 Olympic Park, displacing previously dominant Irish labour which had integrated with the host society to a great extent, and had acquired expectations about pay and conditions as a result.
Let's note that venture capital and the 'disruptive' start-ups they fund depend on rootless, often unqualified workers willing to undermine local economies, while providing convenience services to the professional class. Taxi and hot food delivery drivers are obvious examples.
Before that, Polish and other East European builders were imported to the UK to fix up, convert and extend urban properties, in order to make inner-city gentrification by the professional class possible. This type of building work is very labour-intensive in terms of net gains in habitable space.
See also the foreign labourers who built the London 2012 Olympic Park, displacing previously dominant Irish labour which had integrated with the host society to a great extent, and had acquired expectations about pay and conditions as a result.