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Look up the "lump of labour fallacy". The jobs market is not a zero-sum thing.
by tadfisher 4mo ago
Look up the "lump of labour fallacy". The jobs market is not a zero-sum thing.
- Avicebron 4mo agoThe timescale that the "lump of labour fallacy" operates on, as in the aggregate effects on employement, doesn't necessarily work for most people (individually). Therefore it isn't really a good metric at the scale required to alleviate the problems people are facing. "Eventually it will work out." Isn't proffering a solution.
- tadfisher 4mo agoThe aggregate effects on employment caused by immigration work on an identical timescale. If your point is, "people are terrible at blaming individual outcomes on aggregate statistical phenomena", then I agree with you.