It’s fairly rare that I see arguments against immigration on the grounds that immigrants are more competitive in the labor and housing markets. Interestingly I have seen it said by folks like David Frum and Paul Krugman who I’d call center-right and center-left respectively.
What tends to bubble up is hatred; calling them dirty and rapists and whatnot. The fear mongering about how migrant caravans are coming to overdose my children with fentanyl or whatever the panic de jour is isn’t helping the cause for me, though it does seem quite effective for many.
On the other end of the economic spectrum, it seems like builders only want to build high end luxury housing where the margins are fat. While I’m sure the ROI on that is nice from a financial standpoint, it doesn’t seem to add much to society for some rich dude to own another mansion that they might spend a month or two in per year. I don’t know if that sort of thing is a huge effect however. It does seem that as wealth inequality ever increases, so do our social problems.
What tends to bubble up is hatred; calling them dirty and rapists and whatnot. The fear mongering about how migrant caravans are coming to overdose my children with fentanyl or whatever the panic de jour is isn’t helping the cause for me, though it does seem quite effective for many.
On the other end of the economic spectrum, it seems like builders only want to build high end luxury housing where the margins are fat. While I’m sure the ROI on that is nice from a financial standpoint, it doesn’t seem to add much to society for some rich dude to own another mansion that they might spend a month or two in per year. I don’t know if that sort of thing is a huge effect however. It does seem that as wealth inequality ever increases, so do our social problems.