Posted: Jun 25, 2013 8:16 pm
Loren Michael wrote:
2) Lots of Americans don't want immigration as well; that's not necessarily indicative of much beyond peoples' attitudes toward immigration. People also have attitudes toward prostitution, or gay marriage, or females entering the workforce that may or may not align with economic realities.
So "economic realities" are supposed to trump what people want or think?
Most American't don't want immigration because they've seen what it does to their country and they want no part of that, "economic realities" be damned.
Economics isn't always he final arbiter of policy, though that's probably hard for a capitalist to understand or appreciate. They don't care about quality of life or the character of their country and its communities, all they care about is getting more customers. Gotta grow yunno, at any price.
Most of the time it's just not worth it.