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[–] 100 points 2 years ago (6 children)

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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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    That's truly one of the worst things about brain drain / educated people moving to the imperial core countries for the high salaries. Global south countries really need educated young people helping to solve their own problems, and Canada and the US rip out their heart and soul.

    At least in tech / programming, a good chunk of us are devoting most of our labor time to not just wasteful things, but actively harmful things, like trying to get people to click on ads, or increasing viral engagement.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

    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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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    People make their own history, but they do not make it as they please. Our material conditions limit our agency. We go where the jobs are, where the money is, where the possibilities for a better future are. Those are all choices.

    But you can't ignore the material conditions that lead to those choices. We aren't just free floating agents in a sea of possibilities.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

    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.

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    [–] 77 points 2 years ago

    The president made the remark while arguing that Japan, along with Russia and China, would perform better economically if the countries embraced immigration more.

    Oh, well that's true enough. Japan is crazy anti immigration despite that being a solution to their low birth rate.

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  • [–] 72 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    I can't speak to Russia or China, but Japan has a history of xenophobia going back CENTURIES. It's not exactly a newsflash.

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    [+] [B] 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)
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    [–] 37 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    Why am I seeing multiple news reports today about Joe Biden where they remove context to polarize his comments further? This feels, to me, like a new media trend

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    [–] 36 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    Japan simply is xenophobic. I lived there for 2 years. That's just a fact.

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    [–] 33 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    He's not wrong but also I believe there's a saying in English about stones and glass houses.

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    [–] 25 points 2 years ago* (9 children)

    China xenophobic? I don’t think Biden knows what the word means. The oldest mosque outside of the Middle East is in China of all places built in 627 CE, and still standing.

    What happened to the mosques in Spain and Occupied Palestine? Turned into bars and chicken coops.

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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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    [–] 21 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    I mean he's not wrong, but where does he expect China to get immigrants from? They're 20% of the world.

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    As neat as Japan sounds and as much as I’d like to be there, I mean, he’s not wrong

    I watch YouTubers who moved to and live there talk about how they’re just indefinitely treated like a tourist

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (29 children)
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    [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Yet Japan still bows down to their masters in DC. Can Japan for once wake up along with occupied Korea?

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    There are a lot of people in South Korea that hates the US and Japan way more than the DPRK or China. There are still a strong anti-US sentiment in Okinawa and near US bases in Japan, these led to the 1960 and 1970 Anpo protests in Japan.

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