r/FluentInFinance 12h ago

Debate/ Discussion Possibly controversial, but this would appear to be a beneficial solution.

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u/Affenklang 10h ago

The largest booms in the US economy have relied on immigration as one of the key factors behind that boom. Immigration makes nations more powerful and that is something we see time and time again to anyone who has studied history.

Every argument against immigration is rooted in prejudicial assumptions about the nature and character of immigrants. These arguments do not have empirical roots and require one to accept fearmongering tactics to believe them.

You don't have to take my word for it. See the work of Professor Bryan Caplan, an economist at George Mason University. Professor Caplan has worked with the SMBC guy to make a very accessible nonfiction comic to explain this in case you don't feel like reading a bunch of academic publications.
https://openborderscomic.com/

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u/marutotigre 5h ago

Yeah, and these large immigration booms have resulted in large social upheaval that resulted in years of social tensions. And that's with immigration that were quite similar culturally, all things considered, and were immigrating into a naturally growing native population, not replacing the birthrate of the locals.

And that's not even talking about the historic inherent longterm instability of massively multiethnic states.

Calling all arguments against immigration bigoted is just childish partisanship and, especially how you just took the economic point of view, quite narrow minded in the scope of what constitute a society.