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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

But F the poor I guess

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's not controversial, it's just wrong. Immigration never takes jobs away, it always allows to create more jobs by inflating the local economy. Miami absorbed Cuban migrants after Mariel, and went richer. It has been widely studied now: immigrants took first low paying jobs that were understaffed, it injected more money in the local economy and it allowed spouses who were not working because they were doing the low paying jobs for free (nannying for instance) to get back to high paying jobs, it injects more money... Same in Germany with Syrian intake

[–] git 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

It isn't always true tho it is true for developed countries with low birth rates. For many developing countries immigrants taking low level jobs is a negative because there isn't enough high level jobs. And I am saying this as someone who is supportive of immigration

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

And the USA is in that group now. We have about 1.78 births per women in the us and that number is declining. You need a birth rate of over 2 per women in order to sustain a population without immigration. If a place does not sustain their population their economy cannot grow and if your birth rate is lower than 2 immigration is the only viable option to sustain it. Less people = less specialized jobs = less overall jobs = worse economy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@git @drolex that seems to assume that individuals born in a particular geographic region should have better access to employment than those born somewhere else. Am I understanding you correctly?

[–] git 1 points 1 year ago

Third article does other two is about general economy and inflation of the country which would negatively effect everyone on the country including migrants themselves