https://www.businessinsider.com/us-population-decline-worker-shortage-labor-birth-rates-immigration-economy-2023-5
Take Utica, New York. The city's population declined from 100,410 people in 1960 to just over 60,500 in 2000. But instead of facing extinction, the postindustrial city's population slowly began rebounding in the 1990s with the arrival of Bosnian immigrants fleeing the Yugoslav Wars, who were followed by refugees from Myanmar in the 2000s and, more recently, Bantu refugees from Somalia. The city's relatively low cost of living has made it a hub for people fleeing conflicts around the world, who resettle with the help of refugee-aid organizations. Though the city's population still hovers around 60,000, it would be much lower if not for the resettled refugees and their families who now make up about 25% of Utica's population.
"The refugee population has helped the city's economy tremendously," Brian Thomas, the commissioner of Utica's Department of Urban and Economic Development, told CNBC.
Well, this explains why America wants a war with Mexico.
Ah, so glad immigration brings cheap labor offer and zero demand for more goods and services causing the econony to grow proportionally ending with the same fucking situation
One Billion Bumholes - by Matty Glesias
Oh right. The child traffickers.
(The amount of sweat shops using child slaves to sew clothes in LA is craaaazy)
Thanks Marx for showing me how contradictory capitalism is.
Here we see capitalism being paraded around as economic perfection, yet a key aspect of capitalism is that labor is the one exception to supply and demand. They'll tell you that housing, education, and healthcare are luxuries for the rich so the have-nots can be purged. But labor is treated as a human right that employers are entitled to for free or else the economy will implode. Handouts are bad, but because it's porky, he deserves handouts for being smarter than all of us, he worked hard to not have to work hard! (He inherited his wealth from Porky Sr.)
I have been waiting for when the pendulum to start swinging the other way, with the left wing of capital retaking control, and talk about turning the migrant labor faucet back on.
