If you want to lower American wages to make us more competitive on the world stage you can do two things:

1. Import a slave caste to demolish worker bargaining power

2. Reduce the economic overhead that workers pay to the unproductive FIRE sector (Rent, insurance, etc)

Workers can enjoy the same standard of living (for lower wages!) if half their check isn't going to RENT.

Of course, the second option is completely off limits to the elites who produce nothing and live off their feudal rents. Compare the philosophy of Henry Ford, who raised wages so that his workers could buy more of his cars, to our modern pundits unironically whining about "wage inflation". Are these both 'capitalism'?

A tech bro is no Henry Ford - building real cars does not equal financial speculation on a software-as-a-service AI girlfriend. Naturally, these are people who tend towards importing the caste system due to their class positions.

"Landlords right has its origin in robbery" - Adam Smith