- 21 May 2022 11:04
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We are told that employment discrimination is a bad thing and should be illegal.
But doesn't that presuppose that there are not enough of the better jobs for everybody?
And if that is true, if there are a limited number of the better jobs that exist, then wouldn't it also be true that immigration - adding more people - is going to result in fewer of those good jobs being available?
Isn't immigration going to do the same thing that employment discrimination does?
This does seem to be a huge little economic inconsistency that the ideology on the Left has.
We've even heard some arguments that "immigrants create their own wealth". Well, if this were really true, isn't it also true that the discriminated could "create their own wealth" too? What is it exactly that is preventing them from being compensated in proportion to how much they contribute, under the free market system?
Please, let's try to be logical about this.
But doesn't that presuppose that there are not enough of the better jobs for everybody?
And if that is true, if there are a limited number of the better jobs that exist, then wouldn't it also be true that immigration - adding more people - is going to result in fewer of those good jobs being available?
Isn't immigration going to do the same thing that employment discrimination does?
This does seem to be a huge little economic inconsistency that the ideology on the Left has.
We've even heard some arguments that "immigrants create their own wealth". Well, if this were really true, isn't it also true that the discriminated could "create their own wealth" too? What is it exactly that is preventing them from being compensated in proportion to how much they contribute, under the free market system?
Please, let's try to be logical about this.