r3g3n3x

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[–] r3g3n3x@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The scope of the original statement was food shelter and healthcare. That’s a tall order for open borders with no concern for logistics.

Consider what the country looks like if conditions have deteriorated so much that it deters people from coming here. We will have zoomed past the equilibrium stage. What does life look for the average citizen much less immigrant at that point?

I’m sorry to wrap it up there but I only have so much bandwidth. However, these are conversations that people used to be able to have to tease out nuance, but somehow the zeitgeist has devolved to adversarial tone, name calling, and cultish behaviors. Hopefully I’ll find more when I have more time.

[–] r3g3n3x@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Actually, no. Obviously any immigrant set is going to be diverse. Contributions all coming on a spectrum from nothing to multi millionaire business starting.

The trick is to have a firm enough analytics handle on where you are as a country to handle all of the aforementioned needs of all of them that need it. You WILL eventually hit a point where you have to turn people away to break even economically . Then they start to come in illegally and you’re pushed past the breaking point.

How do you propose, in a world where we have that data (that may or may not exist yet I really don’t know if it’s possible to nail all of that information perfectly), that we handle the excess? If a church takes in too many people, they ask for more donations. If a country takes in too many people, who do they turn to?

[–] r3g3n3x@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

That’s the thing here. Bitcoin is holding up fairly well so far

If it can prove that it returns better gains than stocks AND weathers downturns better than stocks. Well…

[–] r3g3n3x@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Yeah, it feels like you don’t really want to engage with conflicting positions and would rather assume I’m a racist.

[–] r3g3n3x@lemmy.world -3 points 4 days ago (8 children)

This is what a lot of young leftists hand wave away

Everyone deserves a minimum standard of living. Food, shelter, and healthcare are human rights and should be free for those who can't afford it. - Immigrants are good for the economy. Even the illegal ones. We should be making immigration easier.

Taking in infinite immigrants and providing food shelter and healthcare for them and their lineage until the end of time ALONG WITH all of the disadvantaged citizens is not economically sustainable. You’d effectively be turning the U.S. into the world’s homeless shelter. At some point, likely sooner than later, all the raised taxes in the world on the businesses that don’t leave won’t be enough to care for everyone.

I’m all for compassion but it has to be reasoned compassion. You can’t just look at what your version of Utopia is and say that’s what we should do. Humanity is not perfect and neither will any society it builds be. But at the same time we can’t let perfect be the enemy of the good, and so we engage in these discussions.

[–] r3g3n3x@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Commenting just to keep this particular comment in my history to write about later. I think it’s a backbone for a labor bill rights as well as a form of ranked choice voting