punishedgnome
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If you haven't seen a total economic meltdown coming for the last 20 years, you haven't been paying attention. The white = bad stuff is just to keep you from questioning immigration. The economy only functions if the population rises into infinity because it's a ponzi scheme. Consider the following:
1) The government promises to take care of the elderly and thus each successive generation needs more people to both take care of the generation before and fill the gaps left in the economy by the previous generation's retirement.
For example: if I am an engineer and I retire and go into a nursing home, I need a person to take care of me, but someone will also need to fill my old engineering job. Thus, the retirement of one person has created two job vacancies. My retirement has created a need for double the number of people in the economy. I know the ratio of nurses to the elderly in homes isn't 1:1, and people in nursing homes eventually die, and some jobs get automated, but you get the point. You also need to collect taxes to pay the nurse to take care of me, and this is easier if there are more people working than there are people retired.
2) Most people's personal wealth is tied up in their house. Without population growth, housing prices stagnate or decline, driving down your average person's net worth on paper. Basic supply and demand.
3) Keeping the population big and young increases the pool of labour, driving down labour costs.
So basically, without population growth there's no one to take care of the elderly, everyone who owns a house sees their net worth drastically drop and you have to pay someone $20 an hour to make Big Macs.
Government doesn't want to deal with any of these major issues with the fundamental structure of the modern economy, because that would be hard. Hard things are unpopular. Hard things lose elections. So, they stick a band-aid on it by importing more people to take care of the elderly, buy houses and make Big Macs.
Race actually has nothing to do with it at all and people in power don't care what colour, gender, religion or sexual orientation you are. This is all about quashing logical objections to the idea mass immigration is needed in order to prop up the economy. They are constantly adding new layers to the bottom of the pyramid and calling anyone with questions about it racist/sexist/whatever.
1) The government promises to take care of the elderly and thus each successive generation needs more people to both take care of the generation before and fill the gaps left in the economy by the previous generation's retirement.
For example: if I am an engineer and I retire and go into a nursing home, I need a person to take care of me, but someone will also need to fill my old engineering job. Thus, the retirement of one person has created two job vacancies. My retirement has created a need for double the number of people in the economy. I know the ratio of nurses to the elderly in homes isn't 1:1, and people in nursing homes eventually die, and some jobs get automated, but you get the point. You also need to collect taxes to pay the nurse to take care of me, and this is easier if there are more people working than there are people retired.
2) Most people's personal wealth is tied up in their house. Without population growth, housing prices stagnate or decline, driving down your average person's net worth on paper. Basic supply and demand.
3) Keeping the population big and young increases the pool of labour, driving down labour costs.
So basically, without population growth there's no one to take care of the elderly, everyone who owns a house sees their net worth drastically drop and you have to pay someone $20 an hour to make Big Macs.
Government doesn't want to deal with any of these major issues with the fundamental structure of the modern economy, because that would be hard. Hard things are unpopular. Hard things lose elections. So, they stick a band-aid on it by importing more people to take care of the elderly, buy houses and make Big Macs.
Race actually has nothing to do with it at all and people in power don't care what colour, gender, religion or sexual orientation you are. This is all about quashing logical objections to the idea mass immigration is needed in order to prop up the economy. They are constantly adding new layers to the bottom of the pyramid and calling anyone with questions about it racist/sexist/whatever.
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