Eternal Idol
Lono, "The Dog"
Originally posted by Blindside12
Ahh so you have nothing to say of actual substance👆People can still be low skilled workers that leave their country and take away from that countries raw gdp, worker population and taxable income for the country.
Nothing I said contradicts what I said, you lack the ability to think substantively because your just trying to win this argument.
**** off👆
No, you're just not hearing what you want to hear, and you don't know what you're ****ing talking about.
Roy Beck argues that immigration hurts the immigrant's home country's economy, while doing next to nothing for people as humanitarian cause because there are still billions of poorer people in the world...
I don't know of anyone who claimed immigration to wealthier developed countries was the solution to world poverty. Humanitarianism takes a utilitarian approach of helping as many people as possible--the numbers that count--and was never an all-or-nothing endeavor. The only thing he suggested that I found agreeable was the need to develop impoverished countries, but he shared no ideas of his own on how to do so. Infrastructure, technology, agriculture, and potable water programs seem like a good start.
Whatever losses in raw GDP a country might experience are often recouped, and then some, via remittances from immigrants who now make enough to support themselves AND their families back home.
Wikipedia - Remittance
A remittance is a transfer of money by a foreign worker to an individual in his or her home country. Money sent home by migrants competes with international aid as one of the largest financial inflows to developing countries. Workers' remittances are a significant part of international capital flows, especially with regard to labour-exporting countries.[1] In 2014, $436 billion went to developing countries, setting a new record. Overall global remittances totaled $582 billion in 2015.[2] Some countries, such as India and China, receive tens of billions of US dollars in remittances each year from their expatriates and diaspora. In 2014, India received an estimated $70 billion and China an estimated $64 billion.[3]
As long as we're discussing poverty, I'd take it a bit further and suggest we need the following here at home:
*a drastic redistribution of wealth via tax reform that favors the poor working classes and the middle class
*a significantly-reduced military budget;
*an increase to infrastructure projects;
*free public universities;
*a single-payer healthcare system;
*and stricter legal accountability for elected officials and businessmen.
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