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Clamping down on immigration will go down as one of the greatest policy blunders in US history. The American people are about to find out the hard way that nati
by vannevar 5mo ago
Clamping down on immigration will go down as one of the greatest policy blunders in US history. The American people are about to find out the hard way that national economies are essentially pyramid schemes.
- slaw 5mo agoIt is better to stop pyramid scheme earlier than later.
- rexpop 5mo agoYeah, I am generally viscerally horrified by the procedures of ICE/CBP but I am still somewhat disgusted by liberals counterargument that we need immigrants to do jobs that are beneath us. Nothing is beneath us, except what's beneath everyone.
- ungreased0675 5mo agoYes and, very little of the billions in AI spend seems to be aimed at boring, dangerous, or low-paying jobs.
- like_any_other 5mo ago[flagged]
- none2585 5mo agolol quoting Kirkegaard here should tell you all you need to know about your slant on this topic
- like_any_other 5mo agoIt's convenient dismissing data based on disliking the person that cited the data, isn't it? Anyway, you can just read the study itself if you don't like Kirkegaard, which says the same.
- QuadmasterXLII 5mo agoImmigrants to europe are not statistically similar to immigrants to the US. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/political-backflow-from-europe https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/political-backflow-from-eur...
- belviewreview 5mo agoThe US is much better at integrating immigrants into its society and making them economically productive.
- esbranson 5mo ago[flagged]
- esbranson 5mo agoWishcasting. The US could let in tens of millions of immigrants in a single year.