Everything old is new again. Equal poverty for most, and if you’re into schadenfreude, the better-than-you’s will catch preventable diseases from their third-world household help because they’re too “green” to get vaccinated.
Someone on a thread yesterday, I think, was asking, “What do we need economic growth for?” I didn’t have time to say, “Because I don’t want the standard of living my grandparents had. I want air conditioning. I want more than one bathroom for 12 people. I want two cars (well, currently 4, but they don’t all run all the time.) I want a computer.”
I’m not saying we should have open immigration, but one reason Mexicans and all are coming here is that “no growth” in Mexico may not bother Carlos Slim, but for the poor, it’s the same old hunger and death their grandparents had.
“I’m not saying we should have open immigration, but one reason Mexicans and all are coming here is that “no growth” in Mexico may not bother Carlos Slim, but for the poor, it’s the same old hunger and death their grandparents had.”
Bush II agreed to leave the border open after meeting with Vicente Fox, who warned about the consequences (not just for Mexico’s stability, but for the US along the border as well). Carlos Slim & company are just doing what England tried to do in Ireland 160 years ago; de-populate the land for their own uses.
As far as the standard of living we would like (and usually enjoyed when we were younger), right now that comes at a cost: a 0 birthrate.