Subj : Re: New to this
To   : StormTrooper
From : boraxman
Date : Sun Apr 20 2025 09:18 pm

On 20 Apr 2025 at 08:49a, StormTrooper pondered and said...

 St> Mine is of the same opinion... but its not a don't buy the smashed avo
 St> toast  any more its well beyond that.
 St> 
 St> One of our problems has been immigration.  While I'm not against it per
 St> se, ours has been high for years.  It's become our way of maintaining
 St> that population pyramid and the government is addicted to it.  It helps
 St> push up accommodation pricing because we need to house them all, it also
 St> pulls wage growth down, with employment competition.
 St> 
 St> ST

I'm kind of against it.  It's a bit strange that people are expected to, by default, support a constant program of immigration.  It's kind of just assumed as necessary, but no one really questions WHY?  In the age of automation, its not like we need masses of labour, is it?  Maybe the problem is allocation of labour, not a shortage.

Having a net positive immigration intake seems to be one of those "but we've always done it this way..." scenarios, like a process at work which no longer makes sense, but people still do it because its always been done.

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