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Lump of labor fallacy. The pie is not fixed.

• s1artibartfast 2y ago
  fallacy fallacy. The pie is not fixed, but does not necessarily grow >1:1 when people are added.
  • Spivak 2y ago
    Right it grows larger.
    • s1artibartfast 2y ago
      not necessarily, thats my point.
• cmrdporcupine 2y ago
  It's not the quantity / size of pie. It's the fact that the Canadian labour market has explicit "escape valves" for "skilled labour is too expensive" built in as a policy plank in the form of the LMIA and TFW process. They are tools that "industry" lobbied for expansion of, and got. Have persisted through both Conservative and Liberal governments for decades, but was expanded markedly under both Harper and (especially) Trudeau.