Posted on 09/03/2015 12:40:30 AM PDT by Rummyfan
I don't really care for arguments about the economic benefits of immigration - for the simple reason that culture trumps economics. Somewhere in After America, I quote a particularly fatuous slab of happy talk on the subject:
'Sober-minded economists reckon that the potential gains from freer global migration are huge,' writes Philippe Legrain in Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them. 'The World Bank reckons that if rich countries allowed their workforce to swell by a mere three per cent by letting in an extra 14 million workers from developing countries between 2001 and 2025, the world would be $356 billion a year better off, with the new migrants themselves gaining $162 billion a year, people who remain in poor countries $143 billion, and natives in rich countries $139 billion.'
$139 billion? From "a mere" 14 million extra immigrants? Wow!
As Christopher Caldwell points out in his book Reflections On The Revolution In Europe, the aggregate gross domestic product of the world's advanced economies for the year 2008 was estimated by the International Monetary Fund at close to $40 trillion. So an extra $139 billion works out to an extra, er, 0.0035. Caldwell compares the World Bank argument to Dr Evil's triumphant announcement that he's holding the world hostage for one million dollars!!! As he says, "Sacrificing 0.0035 of your economy would be a pittance to pay for starting to get your country back."
Because culture trumps economics. If you're a Swede who likes living in Sweden what would you rather forego? The 0.0035 of spectacular gangbusters economic growth? Or the mosques and the honor killings and the no-go areas and the cross-cultural rape epidemic?
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Yep. Nothing to add.
“Pure” economists that conjure their “theories” in political and cultural vacuums are just silly people.
So totally agreed. Switzerland, for example, has never fallen for the idiocy that it has to import third-world, low-skill, culturally deficient, works to grow it’s population and to thrive economically.
Japan has many problems but in the long run their demographics will work themselves because they are not going to let any foreigners into there country. Japan for the Japanese. They believe in borders.
“Immigration without assimilation is invasion.” ~ B. Jindal
there = their
I could become a hit man and my wife a prostitute. It would very positively affect my family’s income - and very negatively affect my family’s culture.
If you’re going to give my Android a grammar lesson, why not address the apostrophe in “its”?
He’s not fixing YOUR grammar; he’s fixing his OWN.
As the population in Japan drops, the cost of living will drop too. There will be an equilibrium point when people start having larger families again. This stuff about a need for an ever expanding population is nonsense.
Above all, it’s GDP per capita that matters, not total GDP. You increase GDP per capita by increasing the average productivity of each worker, not by adding workers from low productivity societies.
Same with China, they don’t play the multicultural game. They are to smart for that. Multiculturalism is a (stupid) Western thing.
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