Re:Zero-sum thinking on immigration will make America poorer
by pnako on Monday June 29, 2020 @01:33AM
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A bigger threat to who?
Re:Zero-sum thinking on immigration will make America poorer
by Barrin92 on Monday June 29, 2020 @01:50AM
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Everyone involved of course, given that the US loses critical talent and individuals it needs and who seek a better life in the US, the immigrants whose freedom of movement is denied and who will have fewer opportunities. The tragic outcome to these policies is how damaging they are to everyone. Immigration restrictions are by and large, the biggest inhibitor of increasing global prosperity.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/01/immigration-wall-open-b...
I've seen these responses a lot to the economic case for migration, the general tone being that economists are too simplistic in their model of migration, some fall through the cracks and so on, but what always seems to be ignored is that the exact same argument applies to political measures limiting migration.
In fact the politicization of migration restriction for populist, racist reasons and so on is significantly stronger and a bigger threat than the downsides of the economic case for open migration.
People in tech are very well acquainted with this logic when it comes to regulatory capture.