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.
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.