On: Swiss voters reject proposal to cap population at ten million

[Avicebron]

And if they displace someone trying to join the engineering workforce say right out of school? What about housing?

[andrewmutz → Avicebron]

There is no fixed demand for jobs, nor fixed supply of housing. Immigrant consumption creates a lot of jobs and immigrant labor creates a lot of housing

[tadfisher → Avicebron]

Look up the "lump of labour fallacy". The jobs market is not a zero-sum thing.

[Avicebron → tadfisher]

The timescale that the "lump of labour fallacy" operates on, as in the aggregate effects on employement, doesn't necessarily work for most people (individually).

Therefore it isn't really a good metric at the scale required to alleviate the problems people are facing.

"Eventually it will work out." Isn't proffering a solution.