Faye on Nostr: I like Gary's Economics. I don't know much about imigration. It sure looks like it's ...
I like Gary's Economics.
I don't know much about imigration. It sure looks like it's being used as a scapegoat for people to punch down. But the reason it works like that is it could plausibly be a valid thing.
The big issue is though, it's not the immigrants that are the major issue by taking up more slices of "our" pie.
It's the uber rich fucks who own ever increasing slices of the economy, where if we were to redistribute that wealth people wouldn't be sufficiently unhappy that they need to punish immigrants for taking a tiny sliver of whatever pie is left. At least not so severely.
I mean, that and successive governments setting things up so immigration looks like it's causing issues, explicitly so they can use it as a scapegoat. See the previous UK government complaining about having to put immigrants up in hotels, which would have been a _non-issue_ if they hadn't explicitly decided they were going to drag their feet on immigration paperwork as much as possible.
I don't know much about imigration. It sure looks like it's being used as a scapegoat for people to punch down. But the reason it works like that is it could plausibly be a valid thing.
The big issue is though, it's not the immigrants that are the major issue by taking up more slices of "our" pie.
It's the uber rich fucks who own ever increasing slices of the economy, where if we were to redistribute that wealth people wouldn't be sufficiently unhappy that they need to punish immigrants for taking a tiny sliver of whatever pie is left. At least not so severely.
I mean, that and successive governments setting things up so immigration looks like it's causing issues, explicitly so they can use it as a scapegoat. See the previous UK government complaining about having to put immigrants up in hotels, which would have been a _non-issue_ if they hadn't explicitly decided they were going to drag their feet on immigration paperwork as much as possible.