Person A: I support high levels of immigration.
Person B: Weren't you complaining about wages being too low? High levels of immigration directly impact wage growth in a negative way.
Person A: Yeah, but we don't have enough people to care for and replace baby boomers, so we need those immigrants.
Besides telling boomers to get rekt, what's your initial response?
Obviously, it's hypocritical to dissuade citizens from having children, and then turning around and saying we don't have enough people so we need more immigrants.
But I feel like I'm missing something here and can't quite put my finger on it.
It's worth pointing out that even though this is the level of logic used for open border migration the majority of migrants coming in aren't actually seeking work they're seeking welfare.
We know this is the mentality among the elites, boomers and middle class leftists who support this however I think they're severely underestimated just how many are simply filling up the country and not producing anything like the tax income they were hoping for.
Yes purely from a mathematical perspective migration could help solve the population problem, but they have done absolutely everything but offer any incentive for these migrants they mass imported to work. The migrants themselves fucking know what they're in for as well, they tell us when they're posting videos up on social media they're here for benefits so it's not as if this is just anti-migrant ranting.
The elites don't want the native population's young families having children because then that will be more political disputes and movements for them to deal with down the line whereas with migrants they can just bribe them and stay in power among other things. Basically despite all their supposed knowledge and money even for their own private goals the elites can't do basic economics.
The elites don’t care if immigrants work. What matters is that they spend. Poor people spend most of their money, and most of that money trickles upward into the coffers of the elites. It’s actually better for the elites if immigrants get that money from the entitlements funded by the middle class. That’s one of the ways that the elites capture the wealth of the middle class.