We have to ask, since slaveowners were only a small fraction of the population, why did the workers who were harmed not put an end to it?
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We can also ask the same question today. Why aren't ordinary people in all white countries opposing the immigration that keeps them poor?
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(opposing it enough to actually end it, that is. There are many more citizens whose wages are harmed than helped by lower labor costs)
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Drawing parallels between cheap labor immigration and slavery makes progressive heads explode.
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Did the non-slaveowning white southerners think that slavery was good for them? Did they hope to one day enter the slaveowning class?
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I assume they believed it was good for them, otherwise I doubt they would have been as willing to fight in the Civil War.
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Maybe they thought it was good for them because it meant they could get cheaper strawberries?
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Have you read this http://thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/2016/04/15/114/ … article by thealthype?
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http://alrenous.blogspot.com/2017/06/government-successfully-evades-blame.html … "Immigrants make us more stuff and that's why we're poor." The government loves it when you blame immigrants.
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Welfare vote-banks notwithstanding, but then the argument doesn't apply only to immigrants.
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You know it's fine to just oppose immigration because, right? The people shouldn't have to justify themselves to a democratic government.
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Increasing labor supply lowers the price of labor.
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Increasing supply of goods lowers the price of goods.
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Yes, but capital takes more time to increase, and some things don't simply increase when you add more people.
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Sure, I get cheaper strawberries, but there's a much better chance I won't even have a job now to afford them
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And nobody's making any more land.
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Nearly every argument made in favor of low-wage foreign labor can be made in favor of slavery
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Exactly
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Necessity is the mother of innovation. Can spend resources innovating or spend chasing cheapest labor (low-wage immigrant or slave)
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Good point indeed. Saving labor is the number one reason for innovation, but why bother if someone else will do it for pennies?
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This is a point
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Problem is that even if we shut off immigration, and send them back, we still have native born dumb people who won't rate $15/hr ever.
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That's where eugenics comes in
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