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Re:I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by damnyou on Friday July 24, 2020 @11:58AM (#23941029)
The idea of a lump of labor is one of the oldest fallacies, and is a mark of a very small, closed mind that is unable to consider higher-order effects.
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Re:I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by dang on Friday July 24, 2020 @02:04PM (#23942622)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23942614
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Re:I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by damnyou on Friday July 24, 2020 @12:26PM (#23941385)
Online arguments are not meant to change the minds of the people participating in them, they are meant to change the minds of people reading them.

But, as I said, higher order effects. Google Mariel boatlift.

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