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What welfare benefits? Are you living 50 years ago?
Unemployment insurance, free healthcare, and some form of guaranteed retirement income are nearly universal. To maintain these at the same levels, you need a certain proportion of people who work in relatively high-paid jobs and pay correspondingly high taxes. Which is precisely why immigration systems in most developed countries emphasize skilled immigration.
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I suppose you’re also complicit in the deforestation of the Amazon, since humans did that and (I’m assuming) you’re human The point is that we should constantly demand better of our governments and leaders, but that doesn’t require throwing out the baby with the bathwater. I don’t think anyone should want to completely defund the people working on maintaining radios for EMS and 911 if they happen to work in a buildin…
Except in terms of aligning oneself with that $COMPLETELY_UNRELATED_EVIL, individually one has essentially zero choice. But in terms of aligning oneself with $COMPANY and its various endeavours (whatever one may make of them -- as an individual, one generally has vastly greater choice.
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Except in terms of aligning oneself with that $COMPLETELY_UNRELATED_EVIL, individually one has essentially zero choice. But in terms of aligning oneself with $COMPANY and its various endeavours (whatever one may make of them -- as an individual, one generally has vastly greater choice.
Yes, and I’m not proud of everything I do, but I’m proud of what I do, if that makes sense. I’ve had enough conversations with people on moral high horses to know that doesn’t matter to you, though. Go back to brainwashing people with ads or whatever you do
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Except in terms of aligning oneself with that $COMPLETELY_UNRELATED_EVIL, individually one has essentially zero choice. But in terms of aligning oneself with $COMPANY and its various endeavours (whatever one may make of them -- as an individual, one generally has vastly greater choice.
Yes, and I’m not proud of everything I do, but I’m proud of what I do, if that makes sense. I’ve had enough conversations with people on moral high horses to know that doesn’t matter to you, though. Go back to brainwashing people with ads or whatever you do
But in referring to the evident and extreme suffering in the region as "blah blah blah", and attempting to downplay the entirely reasonable and authentic concerns that people have these events -- you were in effect choosing to climb a rather high and wobbly moral pedestal of your own.
That's what you got called out for.
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> Is it all that repressed guilt from invading Indian lands or something? I don't think you have to look that far back to find fairly convincing arguments that the US is the architect of much of its own immigration "problems." Most illegal immigrants come to the US from Latin American countries that the US spent a lot of time interfering with in very recent history. Consider Guatemala. Democratically elected presiden…
We have the right to turn them away granted by our ability to use force, and we absolutely should if they are making our lives worse, period, end of story
> if they are making our lives worse
They (legal and illegal immigrants, for this discussion specifically from Latin America but I suspect more broadly) certainly are making my life better and I'm not convinced that they're making the life of the average American worse.
I've seen a lot of convincing arguments for why immigration helps us, and they seem to mesh with my understanding of immigration to the US being historically a good thing. I can't say the same for arguments from the other side. Often the claims are totally baseless, such as claims that illegal immigrants are as a whole dangerous, despite having a lower incarceration rate than US-born citizens. Other times they're just myopic (most of the claims related to jobs imo). Sometimes they're just blatant racism (white-replacement theories).
“ This ended up helping to drive the A350 manufacturing surge and successfully 4x’ing the pace of manufacturing while keeping Airbus’s high standards of quality.” come on…
As a response to violations of civil liberties? More like a major mechanism for.