This tweet perfectly illustrates how appeals to social justice are often used to mask policies that advance corporate power and labor exploitation. Private equity consolidation in the ski industry has caused consumer costs to skyrocket, eroded local resort cultures, and replaced local staff with low-wage seasonal labor hired through the J-1 visa program, a nonimmigrant “cultural exchange” program that in practice functions as a cheap labor pipeline with minimal wage enforcement and exemptions from FICA taxes. To conceal this crony capitalist rot, @repPettersen instead frames the issue as an attack on 'immigrants' — which J-1 visa holders are not, and has chosen to side with the private equity firms.