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.
To be fair, the smart ones leave as soon as possible.
A case I'm very familar with is the Gulf War of 1991. Many highly educated investors, engineers and doctors fled or left Iraq before the war started since they sensed the end of Iraq as a strong state. Some choose to ride it out, but noticed a sharp decline in everything requiring actual specialist or capital.