• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    Immigration absolutely helps the US economy, because it parasitically siphons all the skilled workers out of other countries that it underdevelops and hoards their labor for itself.

    People think remittances help underdeveloped countries, but labor is the superior of capital, losing that skilled labor is never worth the paltry sums that get sent back home. It’s just another shape that imperialism takes.

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      6 months ago

      In Canada we heavily base immigration on education. So we’re siphoning off the best educated of other countries. I mean this is just fucking those countries.

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        I get what you two are saying, but this kind of removes agency from the people doing the moving.

        Also: Should people not be allowed to move to another country if they’re “too useful” or “skilled”?

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          There’s no agency in the market. That’s the entire point of markets - being independent of a single human’s whims and being an equalizing force, the “invisible hand”.

          And the entire point of communism is getting that agency, having production for the sake of humans rather than humans for the sake of production.