confused-badger
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And the short-term lockout effect where we seem to be importing the upper middle class rather than growing our own natives into it.
The average person who thinks this (ie falls victim to the lump of labor fallacy) is frankly too stupid to make it to the upper middle class, and even if stopping H1B immigration miraculously didn’t simultaneously reduce labor demand, would never be in the running for a good tech job anyway. The right model for these kinds of people is that they are peasants who in other eras would’ve been fine with a low status peasant job, but in the era of social media cannot stomach that reality and so are lashing out.
The Trump movement is so obviously a movement by and for losers-in-denial. Everything that happens is easily understandable in those terms (the extremely cringe Charlie Kirk lionization is a perfect example of this).
confused-badger
20d ago
Btw the subtext here where republicans are the principled free speech party is historically incorrect. There were a long series of religious right-motivated censoring movements in the 90s (and not to mention the Dixie Chicks and Freedom Fries stuff following 9/11). If you came of age during the late 2010s or early 2020s you won’t have the visceral memory of what this was like but I assure you this was a major thing at the time.
The only consistently free speech people have been the centrist democrats (Liberals who want higher taxes) and centrist republicans (Liberals who want lower taxes).
Immigration increases wages in the long run
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