Cheap foreign labor replacing domestic workers, backed by government leverage, leads to a slow bleed. Wages stagnate—U.S. data shows median income barely budged since the 1970s despite productivity doubling. Job displacement hits hard; studies from the Great Recession show displaced workers often take 20-30% pay cuts for years. Society fractures—resentment festers, trust in institutions tanks, and inequality spikes. Look at the Rust Belt: entire towns gutted, opioid deaths up 500% since 1999. Long term, you get a hollowed-out middle class and a tinderbox for unrest.