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305 sats \ 11 comments \ @Undisciplined 19 Jan econ

Institute co-founder Sheldon Richman weighs in on the latest immigration debate.

"The standard answer is that those jobs are American jobs. However, if capitalist entrepreneurs want the freedom to hire consenting workers living abroad, the jobs obviously are not American jobs. Who has the right to declare them otherwise? A job is a continuing transaction between an employer and an employee. It has no national label. To insist that it does have such a label because the employer operates on U.S. soil is to accept a premise that requires proof, namely, that the government or a majority of voters owns the country. That premise glaringly clashes with the principle of liberty. It makes freedom a delusion."

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69 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xIlmari 20 Jan

Westerners are kinda dumb.

They want cheap phones.
But they won't work cheap jobs at a phone factory - those are for "brown people".
They don't want to "import" "brown people" to work those jobs because they are dirty and criminals.
But they don't want the factories to run abroad because that's "stealing" the few "white people" jobs they might create.

(Disclaimer: These are not my views, It's a caricature of the way of thinking of an average privileged white person.)

Like WTF man, that's like the pinnacle of wanting to both have a cake and eat it too.

55 sats \ 0 replies \ @charonnakamoto 23h

This matter is not “just economics.” Freedom itself is at stake.

Wonderfully nuanced article. Liberty is indeed at stake, and the 'woke right' needs to either accept meritocracy or accept decline. Everyone wants handouts rather than compete in a free market where certain difficult decisions need to be taken, such as stopping printing money, which will cause a recession and affect the welfare schemes, hitting the left and the right. Or simply work harder for market prices!

23 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 20 Jan

Hmm. I understand the argument, but on the other hand if the government is going to take my money, the least they could do is use that money to rig the market in my favor.

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 20 Jan

I'd say the least they can do is not rig the market at all, but I take your point.

23 sats \ 6 replies \ @HardMoney 20 Jan

Only allowing American citizens to be hired is another application of DEI. Gets away from the merit and qualifications of which candidates will do the best work

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 20 Jan

It's the same sort of identitarian nonsense, but isn't it explicitly counter to DEI?

37 sats \ 4 replies \ @HardMoney 20 Jan

I think similar to DEI in that the hiring ruleset considers elements that are not indicative to actual skills and qualifications.

Anti-h1b = America first even if it results in worse productivity

DEI = some sort of marginalized group first which will more often than not result in worse productivity

Hiring the best for the purpose of optimizing output and productivity is counter to each of the above imo

10 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 20 Jan

That's what I mean: DEI arbitrarily elevates members of marginalized groups, while America First arbitrarily elevates members of a privileged group.

30 sats \ 2 replies \ @HardMoney 20 Jan

Got it and agreed there. Was more so saying those are more similar to each other than a meritocracy even if they are on opposite sides of the spectrum of who they elevate

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined OP 20 Jan

Yeah, I enjoy when people call them the "Woke Right". I think that's fitting.

27 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 20 Jan

Yep I was more aligned with the right in the last 8 years and I can't abide the woke left, but I've got my eye on the woke right too. Some are starting to exhibit a lot of the same tribalistic behaviors observed on the left