> Because that is a race to the bottom for Americans. Americans enjoy a very high standard of living, and having to normalize your wage expectation with people

> Because that is a race to the bottom for Americans. Americans enjoy a very high standard of living, and having to normalize your wage expectation with people from countries with significantly lower standards of living would destroy that. Malthus pokes its head. The workers get paid a fraction of what they produce. Thus the whole society is richer the more workers you have. Do you really believe americans would be richer if 90% of its population were to be decimated, leaving the survivors with the highest paying jobs?