asyncmind on Nostr: Australia’s immigration bar is set absurdly high because the job was never just ...

Australia’s immigration bar is set absurdly high because the job was never just “skilled migration.”



The job is to import highly qualified Indian labour to babysit ageing infrastructure, overpriced houses, hollowed-out suburbs, collapsing care systems, and the retirement comfort of previous generations.

Australia does it. Japan does it. America does it.

They do not simply want workers.
They want engineers, nurses, doctors, coders, accountants, carers, drivers, cleaners, and technicians — all overqualified enough to keep the old machine running, but politically contained enough not to ask who owns the machine.

The absurdity is this:

You need degrees, English scores, paperwork, police checks, medical checks, sponsorships, visas, and years of compliance just to earn the privilege of servicing suburbs built before you arrived, houses you may never afford, and institutions that will call you “essential” only when something breaks.

This is not a migration system.

It is a generational maintenance contract.

The empire aged.
The suburbs got expensive.
The birth rates fell.
The pipes started leaking.
The hospitals filled.
The care homes overflowed.
The software rotted.
The young locals were priced out.

So now the system looks south and says:

“Send us your best people. We need someone qualified enough to keep our decline comfortable.”

Indian labour is not being invited into the future.

It is being recruited to babysit the past.

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