Comments by "Liam" (@1495978707) on "Adam Conover"
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Who woulda thunk, corporations and politicians working together to dilute labor costs and exploit people by letting people come across the border with reckless abandon. Those people are super easy to exploit. This is yet another reason to heavily restrict migrants coming in. If they're a small number, it's easier to manage them and harder to exploit them at scale. Plus it makes wages here higher for the people who are already here. We are not the saviors of the world anyway. You also need to understand that the reason these children are even being sent here is because of an attempt at compassion. This is a very common thing in progressive politics. See people suffering, we need to help them, don't think about knock on effects, suffering still happens anyway. All we did is encourage the breakup of families and give ourselves far more orphans than we could possibly manage properly.
The obvious response to what I just said is: "why can't we just let them all in?". And the response to that is: "I thought you were upset about wage stagnation and cost of living increases, right?". Helping people, while good, is not free. And not every cost comes in the form of income tax. Every choice has an opportunity cost. If you don't like basic necessities costing so much labor to afford, you have to realize that the labor pool has swollen considerably, while local consumption (which would pay local wages) is not growing to match. Rapid change of any kind, including growth, causes instability. Doubly so when the growth comes increasingly from broken families.
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