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Immigration creates more jobs than it takes away and generates net wage growth. Immigrants don't just work. They also consume and they also start their own businesses. This has all been measured to death. There's no reason to ignore the research on this.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-immigration-means-fo...
https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/immigrants-...
> "Because of these factors, economists have found that immigrants slightly raise the average wages of all U.S.-born workers."
> "Ironically, the result is exactly the opposite of the usual narrative. It seems like immigrants actually improve the economic outcomes for native-born workers."
We’ve seen where feds sweet for illegal immigrate plants up their wages to attract locals who then enter the job market.
Poorly educated immigrants are not the bulk creators of jobs that’s higher ed immigrants. Not the same pool of people.
Large shortages of labor across all sectors may raise some wages but also causes inflation and leaves us worse off.
Do you have evidence of this claim?
https://web.archive.org/web/19980610100009/http://www.redher...
> By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's.
Not the latest date at which the Internet was still on par with the fax machine.
My bad, it was 2006.
That doesn't sound like the claim you made. It is also a prima facie reasonable claim to make.
But lacks any direct evidence that he actually did so. It misquotes things and really grasps at straws to make a point, holy moly.
It's so disingenuous lmao.
Never the less, without corporations hiring people to undermine wages there would be pressure to pay higher wages for low skill low education workers, no doubt.
But this isn't just about "low skill low education workers". Higher skilled and educated workers are making less too.
There is a systemic effort to gut the middle class. And once this effort is complete and 3rd world status has been achieved, the upper class will slowly start to realize that they have also gutted the market for the goods and services that they monopolize.
Supply and demand. If you increase labor supply, prices go down.
More workers will in fact depress labor prices.
> Higher skilled and educated workers are making less too.
This is outright false. Skilled trades are suffering from an inability to fill vacancies and salaries are going up.
> There is a systemic effort to gut the middle class
The middle class is shrinking.. because the middle class is becoming upper class.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/upper-middle-class-income-us-wh...
The middle class earners are earning enough to become upper class.
Heck, in 2000 the median household income in Canada was around US$32K [0] compared to US$42K in the US [1] despite CoL being roughly the same or higher.
If you want a boogeyman for why Canada stagnated, ask why your political class (both Conservatives and Liberals) turned energy in what is a de facto petrostate into an ideological war while American governers on both sides of the aisle backed both fossil and green energy projects (eg. Rick Perry and wind, Jerry Brown and oil in Bakersfield).
[0] - https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/82-221-x/2006001/t/41506...
[1] - https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2001/demo/p60-21...