Message from @BIGMAN

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2020-02-28 16:26:58 UTC  

no

2020-02-28 16:27:04 UTC  

country #1 = country fled to as refugee

2020-02-28 16:27:15 UTC  

what reason would there be for that

2020-02-28 16:27:30 UTC  

if they are treated like animals, or live in mass poverty, or are discriminated against

2020-02-28 16:27:36 UTC  

or are starving, etc

2020-02-28 16:27:38 UTC  

Because afaik that logic could be extrapolated to literally every single country in Europe

2020-02-28 16:27:44 UTC  

and every single country in the world to be honest

2020-02-28 16:27:59 UTC  

literally every nation will have some capacity of hostility to newcomers, a lot of the time for perfectly valid reasons

2020-02-28 16:27:59 UTC  

well, in the US for example, there is no economic reason to not accept immigrants

2020-02-28 16:28:05 UTC  

well there is

2020-02-28 16:28:13 UTC  

particularly concerning wages, but thats another story

2020-02-28 16:28:14 UTC  

immigrants are a net benefit to our economy

2020-02-28 16:28:20 UTC  

again, incorrect but you're straying from the point

2020-02-28 16:28:25 UTC  

not incorrect

2020-02-28 16:28:27 UTC  

look at the actual data

2020-02-28 16:28:32 UTC  

(i know, i'm a 'science simp')

2020-02-28 16:28:45 UTC  

are you just gonna go off on some dumb tangent about something i can debunk again or do you wanna stick to the actual convo?

2020-02-28 16:28:46 UTC  

there is a very, very, very small, like 2% downtick in certain wages

2020-02-28 16:28:54 UTC  

i have actual data on economics btw if ur really interested

2020-02-28 16:28:55 UTC  

but overall, it is a massive boon to the economy

2020-02-28 16:29:04 UTC  

alrigght guess we're doing this then

2020-02-28 16:29:05 UTC  

gimme a moment

2020-02-28 16:29:13 UTC  

are you gonna give me brainlet Sargon data

2020-02-28 16:29:20 UTC  

no i've got actual economic journals for you

2020-02-28 16:29:25 UTC  

where it says that service jobs have a very small downtick

2020-02-28 16:29:46 UTC  

because oddly enough this caricature you have made of your political opponents has very little validity and most people here actually have an education in economics or etc

2020-02-28 16:29:57 UTC  

oh i'm sure

2020-02-28 16:30:02 UTC  

your side is the super-logical one

2020-02-28 16:30:25 UTC  

also, can't i just say that any study you link, or any data you link is BS because i don't agree with it?

2020-02-28 16:30:31 UTC  

that seems to be what most people here do

2020-02-28 16:30:53 UTC  

Camarota, Richwine, and Zeigler (2018): There are No Jobs Americans Won't Do)
https://cis.org/Report/There-Are-No-Jobs-Americans-Wont-Do

2020-02-28 16:31:45 UTC  

i don't think it's necessarily just that "immigrants do jobs americans won't do"

2020-02-28 16:31:50 UTC  

This shows that of all 474 occupations in the united states, only six are majority immigrant (both legal and illegal). Those six count for only 1% of the american workforce and even in all of those individual fields, 46% of the workers are american born

2020-02-28 16:31:50 UTC  

that's kind of a separate argument

2020-02-28 16:32:06 UTC  

yeah i figured that since most of your ilk argue that, i'd get it out of the way first

2020-02-28 16:32:11 UTC  

are you citing that to prove immirgation is not a net benefit to our economy?

2020-02-28 16:32:16 UTC  

lol most of my ilk

2020-02-28 16:32:19 UTC  

> yeah i figured that since most of your ilk argue that, i'd get it out of the way first
@BIGMAN

2020-02-28 16:32:53 UTC  

i think that immigrant-dominated jobs are usually that way because corporations are able to keep wages inhumanely low in those fields by doing so, not that americans wouldn't do them

2020-02-28 16:33:23 UTC  

and i don't think that argument factors into whether or not it's a net benefit to our economy

2020-02-28 16:33:48 UTC  

As for immigration and wages, what you often see in both the USA and UK are foreign workers that are able to operate at a much lower cost (subsequently outcompeting native workers) as they are also willing to lower their living standards in order to both optimise profit margins and outcompete the native workers in terms of price