• RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    “Jobs” are not a finite resource. That’s just the broken window fallacy with a dash of bigotry.

    Or from a macro-economic view, since immigrants are also consumers, studies typically show that immigrants increase aggregate demand for jobs more than they increase aggregate supply.

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      1 day ago

      Do the jobs that are taken by immigrants create jobs in the same field that the person who lost the job can be employed in? Because it creating a job in some other unrelated field doesn’t really help the original person. Nor does the line for someone going up necessarily.

      • It’s important here to clarify, what do you mean by immigrant? Like do H1B status people who live in the country count? Because I can kind of understand you if that’s what you’re talking about.

        If your’re talking about migrant people who get desperately exploited then honestly fuck off.

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          21 hours ago

          I don’t know what H1B is. I’m just talking about people moving to another country in general