• Saapas@piefed.zip
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    4 months ago

    If immigrants are employed then isn’t that a job someone else could be doing?

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      4 months ago

      Jobs are productive. Every person that is employed grows the economy, so every job done by an immigrant creates another job.

      AI has yet to be productive. Right now it’s just destroying jobs. Nothing is created, except maybe data center construction jobs.

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        4 months ago

        Jobs are productive. Every person that is employed grows the economy, so every job done by an immigrant creates another job.

        That sounds dubious to me. Is there a study or something to back up the idea of every immigrant job creating another job?

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      4 months ago

      There’s enough work to be done in this country that everyone should have the ability to place a job if they are willing and able. However capitalism demands artificial scarcity to maintain itself, so capitalists artificially restrict the amount of available positions.

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      4 months ago

      “Jobs” are not a finite resource. That’s just the broken window fallacy with a dash of bigotry.

      Or from a macro-economic view, since immigrants are also consumers, studies typically show that immigrants increase aggregate demand for jobs more than they increase aggregate supply.

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        4 months ago

        Do the jobs that are taken by immigrants create jobs in the same field that the person who lost the job can be employed in? Because it creating a job in some other unrelated field doesn’t really help the original person. Nor does the line for someone going up necessarily.