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Its shit that this person had to deal with continuous racism It's awesome that she recognizes her privilege and was willing/able to post about her experiences,
by pempem 4y ago
Its shit that this person had to deal with continuous racism
It's awesome that she recognizes her privilege and was willing/able to post about her experiences, because they are widely shared
Its unfortunately unsurprising as the US is not great, and yet better than many alternatives
We're going to keep seeing this as previously homogenous - mostly white - countries keep dealing with immigration. The post/tweet Kat shares about 'assumed homogeneity when building a liberal society' is an attitude common throughout the nordic and baltic states
Industrialized nations that have relied on continuous GDP growth need immigration and yet socially, look to keep it at arms length. Often they embrace a phenotypical definition of belonging. These countries are just starting to make a journey like the US or the UK which represent two different trajectories and mythologies of state building and identity.
- pannSun 4y ago> Industrialized nations that have relied on continuous GDP growth need immigration Correction: the industries, not the nations, need immigration to continue their pace of growth.
- imbnwa 4y agoEr, isn't the birth rate in the West well below replacement rate?
- throwawayacc2 4y agoThis would not be an issue if we didn’t live in an absurd system demanding constant growth.
- refurb 4y agoWell, if you want your national pension plans to support seniors so they don't have to eat dogfood, yeah, you need immigration (or new births) to support them.
- pannSun 4y agoSo the wealthiest nations need immigration or their elderly will eat dogfood. Then presumably the elderly in other nations simply die upon retirement? Since their nations are both less wealthy and don't benefit from immigration, what other possibility is there?
- refurb 4y agoIn other countries? Either the government goes further into debt to support the elderly or they return to elderly moving in with their kids to support them. Singapore is facing this. I can remember the exact numbers but there were 8 working age people for every senior in the 70’s and by 2040 it’ll 2 to 1. So basically either younger folks face higher taxes or the elderly do without.
- readthenotes1 4y agoYou mean the pensions are Ponzi schemes, where each cohort requires youngsters to feed it to survive? How evil are we?
- rsj_hn 4y agoThat is how all savings work. You understand that when you save for retirement, you are not burying food in the ground so that you can dig it up and eat it when you stop working, right? Instead, you are purchasing claims on future production. It is always the production of the next generation that feeds the current retired generation, as our time transportation technology still lacks the ability to actually save consumer goods for the future.
- readthenotes1 4y agoNot exactly. The government pension schemes do not provide anything back to the chumps of the next generation. Savings are put in financial institutions and earn money based upon how much money those financial institutions are able to earn by redeploying that money to help businesses grow. There's quite a bit of difference between investing and extracting donations
- tetris11 4y agoa more diverse workforce is less likely to unionise, so ''want" might be a better word here
- hackerlight 4y agoThe "nation" is a vague sociocultural and sociolegal construct. It's not a concrete thing that exists per se and therefore it doesn't have needs in the abstract. In the context that the GP was talking in, it's obvious they were using "nation" to refer to the economic prosperity of a country. This is what industry needs, but it's also what everyday people need.