David Ricardo observed in the early 1800s that most people did not settle down and have children until they had achieved the same level of financial security that their parents enjoyed at the same age.
Newsflash - human nature hasn't changed a jot.
Declining living standards and declining financial security lead to declining birth rates.
The Left gaslights us that this is the result of investment in education, as though overinvestment in credentials wasn't also a response to declining living standards and increasingly desperate competition.
The Right gaslights us that declining birth rates are the result of declines in "traditional" social roles. If 1950s social roles were still delivering 1950s results, then more 2020s men and women would follow them. But they are not.
Both wings of the Establishment want to "solve" the problem by luring other people's children to migrate here, bringing their family's capital, on the false promise of 1950s living standards; and at the cost of not just inflated credential tuition but the loss of their hard-earned understanding of how (their) society works, their native language, and too often their own hopes of timely marriage and children.
They people theyโre importing are still benefitting even though itโs not 1950s living standards. When you come here from Haiti or the Congo 2025 America is still amazing. Theyโre also not exactly bringing any capital here. Theyโre a massive net negative in our society in terms of how much assistance they receive compared to what they produce
True, but they're only a small part of the picture.
Poor or lower-middleclass people in Third World countries can't afford either legal or illegal migration, absent cash inducements
I think youโre underestimating how many illegals are here. DHS estimated 11mil on 1/1/22 (government number so enjoy with a grain of salt) Iโd bet itโs 20M+ at this point. Thatโs about 5% of the population. Nothing to sneeze at
Fair.
USA bit different to the rest of the West because of the (deliberately) porous land border, and the NGOs handing out cash inducements to illegal migrants in transit.
Illegal migrants usually still work, however. In competition with working-class citizens, in a living standards race to the bottom.
Even globalists who admit this go on to gaslight that we can't stop immiserating our working classes further, because "lettuce would cost an extra 20c if Big Ag couldn't exploit an illegal captive workforce".
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