First of all, no. Second, factories are routinely built in the middle of nowhere for partly this reason. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janesville_Assembly_Plant …
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There are towns, though I can't find them quickly, which exist only because a factory was built there.
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Tesla gigafactory will be built outside a thriving city of...90 thousand. In the nevada desert.
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That's great, I know that land out there is cheap. But everywhere I want to be has prices $10k+ per acre, and I can tell you it would be
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much cheaper if there weren't so many people around who want it. Immigration naturally adds to that demand.
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And, again, it takes time for capital to built up to catch up with the massive increases in labor supply https://twitter.com/1337kestrel/status/881309419182727168 …
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If I'm making $60k per year as, say, a McDonald's manager and an immigrant comes in and will do it for $50k, I'm definitely worse off. Sure,
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maybe in the long run I get cheaper burgers, but most of the gains will go to the McDonald's owners. If a robot eliminates
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my job, I'm still out of a job and the owners still get most of the benefits,but at least the robot isn't increasing the demand for burgers,
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housing, land, and every other good and service that I want. There's an actual net efficiency gain with a robot,
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whereas there's no net labor reduction with an immigrant. You're just shifting work from one person to another.
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