This is dubious. Immigration can have massive positive benefits to the target economy.
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weew@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
It can suppress wages.
Immigrants often are expected to work for less money. After all, they usually immigrate from an economically worse country, so they don’t expect to land top tier wages.
You keep filling in minimum wage jobs with an endless supply of immigrants, then there is never a worker shortage and never any incentive to raise the bar.
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 5 days ago
weew@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Yeah, it pumps GDP numbers up. By having more people to do work.
Not by increasing GDP per capita.
AdNecrias@lemmy.pt 5 days ago
Yeah, but later that higher gdp total can be used to better serve the people.
Hahaha, or it just gets pocketed.
Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 5 days ago
If the company makes products the workers can’t buy, then who buys the products?
ValenThyme@reddthat.com 5 days ago
wealthier people in other countries buy the products, is what happens now.