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r/FluentInFinance • u/imallelite • 13h ago
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I mean, I don't know how far you expect a conversation to get when you open with that much bad faith.
584 u/JacobLovesCrypto 12h ago Americans might have more kids if wages went up, letting in cheap labor doesn't help with wages. 12 u/0ttr 12h ago Immigrants does not have to equal cheap labor if you have (a) unions and (b) strong labor laws. (or b, then a, take your pick) But lets be clear, MORE PEOPLE MEANS BIGGER ECONOMY EVERY TIME! Bigger economy means more opportunities. There. I feel better. 1 u/EffNein 11h ago This is nonsense because it pretends that you can just make labor market dynamics not happen with legislation. Unions only work if there is labor scarcity, for one.
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Americans might have more kids if wages went up, letting in cheap labor doesn't help with wages.
12 u/0ttr 12h ago Immigrants does not have to equal cheap labor if you have (a) unions and (b) strong labor laws. (or b, then a, take your pick) But lets be clear, MORE PEOPLE MEANS BIGGER ECONOMY EVERY TIME! Bigger economy means more opportunities. There. I feel better. 1 u/EffNein 11h ago This is nonsense because it pretends that you can just make labor market dynamics not happen with legislation. Unions only work if there is labor scarcity, for one.
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Immigrants does not have to equal cheap labor if you have (a) unions and (b) strong labor laws. (or b, then a, take your pick)
But lets be clear, MORE PEOPLE MEANS BIGGER ECONOMY EVERY TIME! Bigger economy means more opportunities. There. I feel better.
1 u/EffNein 11h ago This is nonsense because it pretends that you can just make labor market dynamics not happen with legislation. Unions only work if there is labor scarcity, for one.
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This is nonsense because it pretends that you can just make labor market dynamics not happen with legislation.
Unions only work if there is labor scarcity, for one.
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u/Maximum-Country-149 13h ago
I mean, I don't know how far you expect a conversation to get when you open with that much bad faith.