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wateroverfire posted:You can value people as people and also acknowledge they have virtues or faults in a particular context, and we (even you!) do that all the time. That seems like imagining a national economy like a household economy: useful as a temporary metaphor but critically lacking. Immigration policy for voters is more like being a tenant in a hotel trying to get management to change policies regarding future tenants. If you still want to use a dumb analogy, that is. Polyseme fucked around with this message at 13:36 on Feb 12, 2018 |
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wateroverfire posted:Tenants in a hotel do no actual work to help maintain or run the hotel, have no obligations beyond not wrecking their rooms, and expect to be waited on by people whose job it is to make them comfortable while they gently caress off and do whatever. They're like children except they pay money. If you view the national economy like a hotel that says a lot about you but not much that's useful about immigration. The economy us nothing like a hotel. I'm saying that immigration is closer to being a hotel tenant than your analogue which makes about as much sense as comparing the economy to a household. That is, it doesn't.
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Feb 12, 2018 14:37
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wateroverfire posted:I'll be honest, I don't understand what you're saying. National immigration policy is not "choosing a roommate" writ large. That assumes that it's the tenants choosing, instead of management setting broad policy. I'm just saying it's a dumb analogy.
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