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A very common xenophobic narrative is that foreigners do two things at the same time (1) steal your jobs and (2) drain your social systems. Another even more vi
by atoav 5mo ago
A very common xenophobic narrative is that foreigners do two things at the same time (1) steal your jobs and (2) drain your social systems. Another even more vile one one would be anything to do with coming for your daughters and women, but for this you will have to favtor in race. Because a rich white Frenchman coming your daughter doesn't have the same ring to it for bigots.
If the US, a country with a too low birthrate, throws out even the best kind of migrant (namely the kind that generates a lot of value for the country), you're going to be in deeper shit than ever before for decades to come.
Now I agree that paying taxes or not should have nothing to do with it.
- Saline9515 5mo agoIt's not just a narrative and has been proven true, at least for (2).[0] For (1), I think that a good discussion with any business owner in a migrant-dominated field will tell you that hiring foreigners is done to keep costs low and avoid Baumol's law. As a result, locals don't want to work in such fields, reinforcing the need for migrants. [0] https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/uploads/default/original/2X/9/9e5bad91db551f97d03cf4734385a8b0c48d60a5.webp https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/uploads/default/original/2X/9...
- atoav 5mo agoSo what you're saying is that people arriving in a country don't earn as much as people with established ties there? Cool. I wonder how that could be? /s Hours worked: https://cphpost.dk/2025-06-18/business-education/career/internationals-work-more-than-danes-say-a-report-from-the-ministry-of-labour/ https://cphpost.dk/2025-06-18/business-education/career/inte...
- Saline9515 5mo ago> people arriving in a country don't earn as much as people with established ties there Not true as Europeans are not concerned. > how that could be It doesn't have to be like this; for instance, you could require that migrant workers earn at least 2x the median salary to get a visa. It would avoid the whole exploitation of third-world workers paid a subsistence salary to save on costs. Do you know a country that does this? ... Danemark! https://www.nyidanmark.dk/pl-PL/You-want-to-apply/Work/Pay-limit-scheme https://www.nyidanmark.dk/pl-PL/You-want-to-apply/Work/Pay-l...