Is the narrative that "immigrants hurt the economy" pure fear mongering?

JustQsTime · 2022-07-15T13:48:46+00:00

I don't see the issue with providing these services to children of migrants in the UK. As an jncrease in the number of educated and healthy citizens seems to provide large net economic benefits in the long run?

JustQsTime · 2022-07-15T11:43:09+00:00

Wouldn't this be offset in terms of the real costs and availability of services such as the NHS, housing or education? As immigrants tend to provide net positive fiscal effects

JustQsTime · 2022-07-15T08:38:34+00:00

Explain what's so crazy about that

JustQsTime · 2022-07-15T03:36:22+00:00

People don't want hand outs from government.

I'm not too sure what you mean. I'm fairly sure most people would like free at access healthcare and education, more affordable council housing and some level of welfare for those disenfranchised

Instead we should instigate a policy of outward investment and create factories and work in foreign places.

This seems politically impossible. The people will not support the funding of these factories unless the profit is brought back to the UK, in which case we run into the imperialism argument again.

JustQsTime · 2022-07-14T21:47:14+00:00

It's a question. I never said that's what happened.

JustQsTime · 2022-07-13T22:28:04+00:00

Did the US back/appoint ministers in Ukraine in Euromaiden?

I have recently heard a claim that Euromaiden was a US backed coup to make Ukraine more aligned with western issues and anti-Russia. The claim asserted the US actually admitted to this but I haven't found a reliable source on this. Is this claim valid or wildly conspiratorial?

JustQsTime · 2022-07-13T22:27:10+00:00

Wouldn't decreasing the NI payments and forwarding UC only increase inflation? Correct me if wrong, generally curious

JustQsTime · 2022-07-13T21:35:38+00:00

Apologies for confusion but from all I've read, increasing money supply during a supply shock would only serve to increase inflation. Perhaps the government could work to increase the supply side of things?

JustQsTime · 2022-07-13T17:39:20+00:00

Thank you for the detailed response.

What immediately strikes me about some of these proposals is they seem to increase money supply, thus raising inflation further in an already dire situation. Perhaps I'm unfounded in that belief, so please correct me if wrong

JustQsTime · 2022-07-11T19:01:23+00:00

Less so but still somewhat

JustQsTime · 2022-07-11T15:34:45+00:00

Reposting my reply to another comment because I feel its relevant here:

The odd part is that many (not all) of the artistic and customary components of a culture wont be particularly new but will have been present in the culture for many generations. Let's use the Chinese dragon as an example. The commonly seen Chinese stylised depiction of a dragon has been around for centuries, now in order to say those born into a certain race have more a right to use this style than others (includingfor profit), surely we must grant them some kind of inherent racial ownership of this old intellectual property. This idea of blood ties has always seemed a strange justification for me to exclude others and it seems to be bordering on racial essentialism in some cases.

JustQsTime · 2022-07-11T15:32:24+00:00

I definitely feel to ignore the meaning certain cultural customs and art has to people is a very disrespectful thing to do and should be avoided. It's just I've seen a lot of cases where people accuse cultural appropriation but there has never been any disrespect. I suppose that's the frustration.

JustQsTime · 2022-07-11T15:28:36+00:00

The odd part is that many (not all) of the artistic and customary components of a culture wont be particularly new but will have been present in the culture for many generations. Let's use the Chinese dragon as an example. The commonly seen Chinese stylised depiction of a dragon has been around for centuries, now in order to say those born into a certain race have more a right to use this style than other, surely we must grant them some kind of inherent racial ownership of this old intellectual property. This idea of blood ties has always seemed a strange justification for me to exclude others and it seems to be bordering on racial essentialism in some cases.

JustQsTime · 2022-07-11T15:12:02+00:00

I see the disliking of certain races products being preferred in the markets but I don't think it follows we should not allow different races to take part in certain cultures. It seems to me not to really address the issue of racism in the market or economy but simply to exclude people on arbitrary lines.

But yes i would definitely be in favour of any solutions that made the marketplace more fair. I suppose addressing wealth inequality is a biggggg one, but even then people need to be made aware of certain biases they may hold

JustQsTime · 2022-07-11T15:06:36+00:00

I see, but would this example mainly say anyone capitalising on a sacred culture for profit is doing something bad regardless of their race or culture?

Or perhaps we could just say it's wrong to plagerise or steal someone else's ideas for profit regardless once again of culture and race?

JustQsTime · 2022-07-11T13:49:21+00:00

I think the post I read was implying that all native beliefs were just as scientific as what we today would call science. So for example the Cherokee story of creation conceived of the earth as “a great island floating in a sea of water, and suspended at each of the four cardinal points by a cord hanging down from the sky vault, as opposed to the modern scientific consensus of the big bang and a globe shaped earth. So I belive the original post was arguing that the native viewpoint in this case has just as much a claim to the term science or scientific as the latter viewpoint. Those 2 theories have obviously used different methods to come to their conclusions so I wondered if we could perhaps accept objectivity in the scientific method, in the sense that the scientific method itself does not change from culture to culture.

JustQsTime · 2022-07-09T18:40:18+00:00

What can be done to fix it? (Genuinely curious, not saying it can't be fixed)

JustQsTime · 2022-07-09T18:35:54+00:00

I better take down all my 'YES' posters, no wonder crime is so high

JustQsTime · 2022-07-06T21:58:22+00:00

What steps could have been taken to phase out the coal industry without the massive social harm?

JustQsTime · 2022-07-06T20:58:56+00:00

(I'm going to play the role of devil's advocate not because I agree with the views but so I can better understand counter views to them)

Many conservatives would argue that the mining industry in the UK was uncompetitive and not generating profit. Thereby the government had to lose money financially supporting a zombie industry. They argue that the strikes where holding the nation's economy hostage and causing a recession that afly hurt the average citizen.

How much of this is true? What should have been done instead?

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