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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I understand what you’re saying about immigration, but that holds less true with respect to war forcing people to move.

    So?

    I was more pointing towards the suggestion that market forces kept everything in check, which, no, they don’t. The market does not magically stay afloat without intervention. Production is not just regulated by market forces.

    But most importantly, countries have capacities. America, for example, can hold many more people than it is, comfortably. But if you have a place that’s smaller, like Britain or sweden, free border immigration will result in strains in both the cultural and infrastructure situation in the countries at hand as they rapidly grow beyond present capacity, which they will if free immigration is allowed.

    Excess workers willing to work for lower pay can also drive wages down, and allow companies to exploit workers more easily(often regardless of the actual law).

    I’m generally in favor of reasonably lax immigration policies, but free border immigration is not a good idea. People need time to adjust to the culture of where they’re going, and you don’t want to overload that



  • Because no one wants to leave their family and entire home behind just to move to a wealthy country to live on the street as a homeless person

    Life as a homeless person can be better than life in a war torn country.

    The flow in both directions is kept in check by market forces, the same way we regulate the production of every good and service in our economies.

    Libertarian ah take









  • You take things step by step. You don’t fix everything at once, but beginning and continuing a variety of initiatives against a variety of threats more easily allows you to scale up those efforts as threats grow closer. It’s a lot easier to do something if you cut it up. And early starting allows easier starts.

    You think that just because something is further in the future that it should be disregarded, but in reality small, fairly low effort approaches started sooner will former a much stronger base in facing threats as opposed to pretending only the closest is a real one.

    Billionaire backed right wing facists across the globe having 99.99% of the power

    And this is just plain doomest, as well as wrong, for now.