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54 sats \ 9 replies \ @SimpleStacker 20 Feb \ parent \ on: What is the economic impact of high levels of immigration? AskSN
I'd also argue that economists don't pay enough attention to culture. What happens when the workers that are coming in, even if they pay taxes and are a net positive to the economy, have cultural and ethical beliefs that are at odds with the existing culture?
I'm about 40 minutes into the video that @Undisciplined linked and he's literally doing exactly what you said. "The cultural impact is insignificant if you can't offset the 90 trillion dollars of gains."
Unfortunately, you still have to convince people who value their culture to vote for your policy.
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I didn't watch the whole video.... where did he get $90 trillion in gains from?
AFAIK, the entire world economy is less than $90 trillion USD in real terms...
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He says wide open borders will dramatically increase the world's productivity.
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That does make it a different point than what you were asking for. A net benefit isn't the same as a mutual benefit.
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I think ultimately it would become a mutual benefit if the entire planet was able to produce more. Personally culture isn't a big deal to me, short of extreme differences.
Basically any culture that doesn't want to infringe on my rights is fine
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There's an economist joke that the best foreign aid is luggage.
Moving from a tyrannical shithole to America will generally increase individual productivity by an order of magnitude.
The way this generally plays out is that each culture adapts to some degree to the other and then enclaves of the remaining minority culture persist.
My perspective is that we generate problems by trying to either force integration of the cultures or attempt to force a change onto the majority culture. Otherwise, people can generally coexist and stay out of each other's hair.
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Example: like most people I have never gone out of my way to harass someone of a different culture because they are different.
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