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Originally Posted by Toccata & Fugue
Yes but this is just comparative advantage*, perhaps the US is not best suited to a raisin market. You should give California back to the Mexicans anyway.
America was built by immigrants and people working for low wages.
*Although I think that the concept of Comparative advantage is something of a myth.
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You seem to be flailing a bit.
The method you are looking for to counter the 'zhukov/dda point' is a two pronged attack designed to highlight their disapproval for their own arguments. You might try the following:
1) in re zhukov point out that his argument is essentially 'migrant workers willing to work for low wages delays the increased mechanisation of production' then calmly remind him that once production is mechanised nobody is employed at all to do those jobs and this is BAD for the workers. He should then logically concede that there is nothing obvious wrong with allowing immigrants to work those jobs should they so wish.
2) in re dda point out that immigrant workers willing to work for low pay effectively cushion the small business during the transition to improved mechanisation and highlight that well run businesses will choose to become more efficient or not on their own. if the existence of unskilled labour makes badly run businesses delay investing in efficiency then it doesn't matter because better run businesses will have made the choice to improve efficiency: those businesses who fall will be replaced.
And to anyone who suggests that the presence of unskilled labour in a market place discourages the existence of skilled labour I suggest you just laugh at their suggestion that the existence of macdonalds restaurant staff threatens the number of doctors in a society.
Good hunting young one
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