From what I've heard the reason for the hatians flooding springfield is some factory wanting them for cheap labor, if we knew who the factory was maybe an email campaign or boycott could be useful.
Maybe a don't work with scummy factory campaign as opposed to a don't work with scummy magazines campaign
Cope. Lolbert nonsense. If there was a completely free labor market, factories would be importing endless hordes from the third world, paying them pennies per hour.
In completely free markets, there’s no incentive not to dump all the externalities onto others or society at large. Which is why pure libertarian free markets don’t work.
They work just fine in a closed system. What you're seeing is equivalent to pumping heat into a system and then going, "and this is why the laws of thermodynamics don't work."
Importing invaders from outside the market is obviously going to destabilize any market. That's one of thousand reasons why they need to go back.
Either you didn't read the rest of Kienan's post or you're putting words that weren't there. The quotes around the word had a more generalist feel. I didn't see the words "complete" or "absolute" in those sentences.
Precisely.
Also, you've given me an idea. We should call immigrant welfare:
Immy Stimmys
The left used to (pretend to) understand this in the early 00's when it was Walmart giving employees pamphlets on how to apply for food stamps and housing assistance.
That was nowhere near my point, but nice try. I wasn't trying to say how things should work, other than that I don't want perverse incentives and subsidies coming from the government, and thus taxpayers.
Also, although it wasn't my point, "lolbert nonsense" would still be better than what we currently have, because at least the flow of money would be voluntary. So the government would no longer be able to, as I ended my original comment...steal from us to fund our own suffering, poverty, and extinction. That would stop. And that would put an end to a lot of the immigration issues right there.
Again, wasn't my point and, again, would still probably work better than our current brand of corporatist socialism.
No, they wouldn't. Because most people aren't willing to move thousands of miles to a foreign country with a different language to get shit pay.
Why wouldn't you voluntarily work at a McDonald's in Dead Horse, Alaska? You've got no barriers. No one is stopping you. You could buy a plane ticket right now. There's free movement within the US. So why don't you?
Because the cost of that kind of a move is so fucking crazy both economic, culturally, and personally, that you literally wouldn't ever consider it. Neither do most other people.
A free market would mean that the government is NOT subsidizing this shit.
Your decision might change if the government promised you free food, free shelter, free healthcare, free travel, and a bonus. Most people still wouldn't take it because most people are invested in their local environment by one mechanism or another (career, family, culture, familiarity, etc). The only people who would take that are rootless people, mercenaries who will keep no investment, or criminals trying to get away.
That is why it works the way it does.
The answer to your hypothetical is if Dead Horse, Alaska can't draw anyone to work at McDonald's, it doesn't have a McDonald's and that is an absolutely acceptable outcome. We don't need to import an army of third-worlders to go staff a fast food restaurant somewhere that clearly isn't established enough to justify one's presence. If someone living in Dead Horse really wants to live near a McDonald's, they are the ones who need to exercise free movement.
If no American wants to go there to work at a McDonald's there and lack of garbage food isn't enough to make the current residents leave, then you have an equilibrium. The market is working just fine. Maybe some people are sad they can't have a Big Mac, but that is fine.
Hence my point. Even a completely lax and open border in a purely free market doesn't equate to hordes of people flooding in. You kill the subsidy system and the whole migration racket goes with it.