I don't exactly agree with the poster's implication but he's getting at exactly the same point. He's crudely asking if you're a hostile outsider who sees cultural damage as a benefit rather than a cost and are using economic arguments as a cover.
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There are people on the right who have absorbed the Marxist view of economics from education and the broader culture - to them it's so obvious that "the big businesses" bring in labor to undercut wages that to deny it is to deny something so obvious that the only question is why
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @benwinegard
You don't need to be a Marxist to understand the supply and demand relationships between capital and labor, though. Wage-fund theory predates Marx by a good bit -- Ricardo and Malthus.
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Replying to @CrumpledSophist @benwinegard
For Ricardo the labor theory of value was a mystery that was later solved by the application of marginal analysis. Workers get paid according to marginal product - less & a competitor would hire, any more & not worth hiring. Only Marxism is a holdover from before this was known
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There are sincere economic arguments against immigration that work but this one is based on a lack of understanding of how markets set wages. Immigrants are willing to accept less because the externalities of being in a better country are a bonus (plus prog supplied free stuff)
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @benwinegard
You don't believe that holding capital constant and increasing the labor supply would cause wages to decrease? What is special about the labor product that makes it immune to market forces?
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Replying to @CrumpledSophist @benwinegard
It's not immune to market forces; the market forces play out differently because it's not a consumable good. You buy labor to produce goods and services to sell and the price you're willing to pay is based on how much added product the labor you're buying produces.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @benwinegard
Non-consumable goods are still subject to supply/demand effects, though. If each worker I hire increases my widget output by $50,000, I won't hire a worker for > $49,999. But if he's competing with 100 others and willing to work for $30K just to get a job, great! $20K? Better!
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If you can produce $50k of widgets with an added worker and you offer him $30k your competitor will offer him $31k and pocket the difference; repeat until both of you are offering him nearly $50k. "But I'll just collude with him" - he'll cheat and keep the whole benefit.
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