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> Last caveat I'll say is immigrants have produced extreme value and innovation in tech. They are intelligent and dilligent. They just arent good for the americ
by anamax 5y ago
> Last caveat I'll say is immigrants have produced extreme value and innovation in tech. They are intelligent and dilligent. They just arent good for the american middle class.
Are you saying that immigrants are interchangeable?
- ldjkfkdsjnv 5y agoI dont want to argue the merits/drawbacks of immigrants. Its a simple fact, flood a labor market and watch wages and working conditions go down
- astrange 5y agoIf that was a simple fact then Russians’ upcoming autarky would make them richer and you could get a raise by killing your coworkers. Well, unless they got to you first.
- unglaublich 5y agoUnless you have unions, or in other words: price fixing. While illegal for companies, it should be mandatory for human beings. What else separates humans competing for survival in a capitalist world from them surviving in the wilderness?
- BeetleB 5y ago> Its a simple fact, flood a labor market and watch wages and working conditions go down Then ... simply add more without flooding. There's no point appealing to extremes.
- gscott 5y agoMost of the greatest inventions come from immigrants. I think the structure of the H1B program and its easy manipulation is bad for the middle class but everyone in the United States is or came from immigrants.
- anamax 5y ago> Most of the greatest inventions come from immigrants. Whether or not that's true, it doesn't answer "Are immigrants interchangable?" That leads to "Does it matter which immigrants?" I ask because Pareto's law applies, which gets us to "Can we get all/most of the benefits with few of the costs by picking immigrants?" (The costs are an increasing function of the total number. Do the benefits depend on which immigrants?)