America Needs Immigrant Labor
Productivity is measured by outputs created per unit of input. Our goal as a society that seeks to enrich itself is to find ways to create as many outputs as possible for as few inputs as possible. If an engineer developed an engine that could run twice as long on half the oil, we should celebrate a 4x increase in efficiency… it would be irrational to go
>”damn that sucks, think about how much less money the gas station will make!”
Now apply that same anology to immigrant labor or offshoring. If we can produce the same amount of food for $50k by hiring Mexicans vs $150k hiring domestic labor, then it is more productive to hire Mexicans
>”damn that sucks, think about how much less money the gas station will make!”
Now apply that same anology to immigrant labor or offshoring. If we can produce the same amount of food for $50k by hiring Mexicans vs $150k hiring domestic labor, then it is more productive to hire Mexicans
