I'm with you in principle on this, raghu, but not so much in practice. Capital can and does use immigration (sometimes aggressively) as a wage-cutting and union-busting strategy. This alone makes immigration less than a "pure" matter of human rights and social equality. But there is also the threat of right-wing "populism" exploiting the toxic mixture of job competition and xenophobia. So to be "politically correct" on immigration may amount to wishful thinking and a strategy of political impotence.
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:14 AM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Tom Walker <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Full Employment Versus Jobless Growth > > by Herman Daly > > Economic growth has become the end, and if the means to attain that end > — automation, off-shoring, excessive immigration — result in unemployment, > well that is the price “we” just have to pay for the glorified goal of > growth in GDP. If we really want full employment we must reverse this > inversion of ends and means. We can serve the goal of full employment by > restricting automation, off-shoring, and easy immigration to periods of > true domestic labor shortage as indicated by high and rising wages. In > addition, full employment can also be served by reducing the length of the > working day, week, or year, in exchange for more leisure, rather than more > GDP.,,, > > > > > > Really? "Excessive immigration" is an evil, right alongside automation and > off-shoring of jobs? > > Is progressivism that comes packaged with a nasty dose of nativism still > progressive? > -raghu. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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