• Pyr@lemmy.ca
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    3 hours ago

    Infrastructure isn’t tied directly to labour available.

    There needs to be enough time to construct, enough money to invest, enough space to have proper city layouts etc.

    You can’t just build a water treatment plant anywhere.

    You also can only build housing and schools and hospitals so fast, an extra 100 million people in America in less than ten years would mean and extra 25% or everything needing to be built in less than ten years.

    At the moment government doesn’t fund construction of housing, so that’s an entire system that needs to put in place before letting everyone in.

    Plus a bunch of other issues that I can’t even think about I imagine.

    • SinAdjetivos@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      You can’t envision it because you live in a country that is currently incapable of maintaining basic infrastructure and providing the most bare minimum housing for its populace, much less expanding it.

      That’s not true for elsewhere in the world, nor is it true historically.

      10 million dedicated laborers (10%) is an insane amount of manpower.