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Are you defending the article's claim that "In short, immigration creates more economic opportunities for everyone: a win-win scenario"? That's a tall bar to c
by jacobriis 6y ago
Are you defending the article's claim that "In short, immigration creates more economic opportunities for everyone: a win-win scenario"?
That's a tall bar to clear.
"More [house cleaners] makes it easier to [clean more houses] and more manageable prices making it easier to expand the market. Lower [house cleaning] cost makes pricing better which makes demand increases. There’s a positive feedback loop that also results in more opportunities for [house cleaners]."
Clearly house cleaners currently working in the US would benefit from unrestricted migration of people restricted to house cleaning.
"Scarcity of talent leads to competition which leads companies to be aggressive in deterring movement of employees to competitors so things like non competition agreements increase. In extreme cases you get cartel like activity between Apple <> google and others agreeing not to recruit or hire each other’s employees."
Obviously barriers to entry to professions do not always (probably never not once ever) lead to the subjugation of the members of that profession by cartels. I assume brain surgeons are then the worst off having been captured by hospitals, held in captivity and forced to preform brain surgery all day.
- LeonB 6y agoI do take your point, but I think “house cleaner” in 2020 doesn’t contribute to “the growth engine of the housing market” quite as directly as “software engineer” contributes to the growth engine of the software economy. No one goes around saying “house cleaning is eating the world!”