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Re:A brief history of nobody wants to work anymore by yucky on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @07:50AM (#32164372)
And yet the US leads the world in immigration every year, year after year. Economic migration to the US is a very real thing and is likely due to people in the US having the highest disposable income in the world.[1]

Also, almost 2/3 Americans are on free or subsidized health insurance through Medicaid, Medicare, Tricare/VA etc. which have nothing to do with employment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c...

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Re:A brief history of nobody wants to work anymore by sudosysgen on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @05:16PM (#32172446)
This is a terrible metric. In basically half of the world immigration allowances are supply limited, not demand limited. If France wanted to import a similar fraction of immigrants as the US does tomorrow they could with the ink of a pen.
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