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There is a line of arguments that are sometimes made which claim that immigration leads to the stagnation of wages (abundant supply of workers -> lower wages).

• roenxi 5y ago
  > I believe the author is trying to express this. Really sums up the problem here. If the author had substantive points to make then they should have been made somewhere other than Twitter. Economics isn't impossibly hard but there is too much to cover for a tweet to be a useful contribution to any debate. Really all it can do is act as a sort-of straw poll for if people agree with an idea, but even then a Tweet doesn't fill that role well. Tweets are by nature a bit vague and poorly sourced. Match that up with basic selection bias and there is nothing useful to be gained in economics by Tweet.