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Don't say "I can't understand". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chALQCm9VgE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chALQCm9VgE > the cruel and degrading treatment I
by knorker 5y ago
Don't say "I can't understand".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chALQCm9VgE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chALQCm9VgE
> the cruel and degrading treatment
I don't think this part has as wide support as the part where people see entire towns lose their jobs, while from their point of view foreigners are being let in left and right. Those foreigners didn't literally take their jobs, but someone's gaining jobs and someone's losing jobs.
It may be good for the economy, but you know that saying "taxation without representation"? Yeah, the government is supposed to represent the voters. And from these local's point of view they are not being represented. It's taxation without representation. And some people get upset about that.
These people didn't get elected to represent the economy as a whole or even humanity as a whole, but to represent the voting population and their interests.
Don't say "I can't understand".
- Stevvo 5y ago"someone's gaining jobs and someone's losing jobs" More jobs = more jobs for everyone. If I immigrate to your country nobody looses a job; I get given a job that a native was unwilling or unable to take. My economic contribution to the society will also increase the total number of available jobs, meaning more jobs for everyone.
- azalemeth 5y agoIndeed. It's my understanding that in economics wealth can be created (and destroyed!) and isn't necessarily a zero-sum game. The UK had huge problems with the combined effects of the pandemic and brexit in getting its vegetables harvested. The most convincing explanation I've had as to why migration ends up being hated so much come from The Simpsons, in which Mayer Quimby [sic] blames migrants for other political problems...
- knorker 5y agoI'm not disagreeing with you. Well, except for the spelling of "lose".
- azalemeth 5y agoBy "I can't understand" I mean, "please explain to me" -- I am sure that political scientists will write at great length about the reasons behind brexit and xenophobia. I am not a political scientist and I have recently accepted a job in a country other than that which I was born in. What is the pracie of the argument as to why saying "I can't understand" is a bad turn of phrase?
- knorker 5y agoSome ways of phrasing things are conversation enders, not inviting anyone to talk at all. This is one of those. It's telling people there's no point in engaging, there's nowhere to go from here.
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