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Regrettably, This is what does tend to happen. But its also a failure of society because immigrants are easy targets for scoring political points, despite it be
by pm90 4y ago
Regrettably, This is what does tend to happen. But its also a failure of society because immigrants are easy targets for scoring political points, despite it being repeatedly shown how beneficial immigration has been to Western econonomies.
- boppo1 4y agoCan you support that last claim? Might have been good for the S&P, but I'm not so certain the average joe off the street has seen said benefits. I could swear I recently saw a stat that locally born men in the US have only shared in like 3% of new job growth for the last decade or something like that.
- pm90 4y agoIncome inequality is a separate (albeit related) problem from economic growth. Immigration generates more value, the fact that most of this value is captured by elites needs to be fixed with appropriate actions (higher taxation on the extremely rich etc).
- ClumsyPilot 4y ago'but I'm not so certain the average joe off the street has seen said benefits' Since 1975 productivity has grown >200%, but wages didn't. So average Joe has not seen benefits of anything really.
- MrMan 4y agolets say an innocent baby enters the world - this immigrant is not seen as much of a threat. you dont say "babys are taking things away from real Americans". just substitute "person" for "baby" and the benefits to the economy are not hard to posit. adding humans to the economy is good. the pie gets larger. more tax revenue. etc etc etc
- throw_m239339 4y ago> how beneficial immigration has been to Western econonomies. Western way of life is unsustainable and no amount of immigration will change that. To govern is to predict and the west needs to prepare itself for a post industrial, post energy hungry era. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degrowth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degrowth
- ClumsyPilot 4y agoThis is broad to the point of being unhelpfull - an urban resident vs suburban resident, or US vs Japanese lifestyles are quite different.
- landemva 4y agoThat is legal immigration of persons who can pass a background check, are healthy without disease, and who can work to support themselves.