No. Progress is in adherence to empirical truth, which has no obligation to hug the center between arbitrary ideologies.
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Replying to @AmericanTeethSM @G_S_Bhogal
Sort of, but there's also the is/ought problem...
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Replying to @HbdNrx @G_S_Bhogal
When we can separate the positive and normative disagreements better we can start to deal with that.
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Replying to @AmericanTeethSM @G_S_Bhogal
Agreeing on the facts is the easy part, yet even that has increasingly become a problem.
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Replying to @HbdNrx @G_S_Bhogal
I'd say it's most of the problem now. "Immigrants are taking our jobs" is a positive claim.
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Replying to @AmericanTeethSM @G_S_Bhogal
I'm not sure why we can't agree on this fact, really.
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Replying to @HbdNrx @G_S_Bhogal
I just believe what the economists tell me, dude.
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Replying to @AmericanTeethSM @G_S_Bhogal
Have you examined their biases? Have you considered how their results may be mischaracterized? What you're really thinking of is GDP...
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So, yes, immigration increases GDP ("the economy"). But not necessarily GDP per person. The jobs issue is a simple supply/demand one.
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