That doesn’t mean they’re going to just open their borders to an influx of foreigners, especially if the global economy takes the kinda downturn they’re predicting.
I think they'll be okay with letting in the
skilled workers first. These wealthier countries have a demographic problem. The population is aging and less children are being born to replace them. They'll need doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, psychologists, social workers, electricians, pharmacists, surgeons, dietitians. Then they'll need engineers(to make buildings more accessible) soon even skilled construction workers to build nursing homes and assisted living complexes. They'll need scientists to build and work at
nuclear fusion plants. Eventually they'll need truck drivers to transport parts for windmills and solar panels. Then certified heavy machinery operators to install them. The brain drain has been slow, but as republicans and retarded democrats continue to gut the social safety net, these other countries will recognize the potential money they could be making off immigrants who have skill and it will be like the scramble for German scientists after Nazi Germany fell.
There was a thread
right here that went platinum discussing what exactly it is that America is offering that they can't get in other countries. Why would a Carribean pharmacist stay in the US when he can get a good paying job and know his kids won't be murdered at their art class by a deranged shooter armed with a semi-automatic rifle? why would an Indian Engineer come to the U.S. where he'll be spending most of his income to live around racist cacs or in a shoebox in a big city? Why would a recent graduate choose to remain in expensive-ass NY when he could spend 2hrs and be in Toronto where he knows he'll at least be able to afford his medication and his parents will get subsidized health care?
The economic downturn is the result of companies refusing to lower their prices and people in turn refusing to spend as much. You can't get blood from a stone. If the Fed issues stimulus checks and taxes CEO wages and dividends on stocks more heavily, that money is all coming back into the economy but they don't want to do that. We literally got a preview of how that shyt would work when student loan payments were frozen, people got stimulus money, and the day to day expenses from commuting, eating at work, and paying for parking vanished because of remote work. The economy went HAM and millionaires were being made off crypto and stocks because people could actually invest some of that extra money.
People talk about the economy like it's a force of nature like the weather instead of what it really is: People with the most money making decisions about how they want to spend it and because most of washington is millionaires, they're all on the same page. It's an insane vision of capitalism where they simultaneously want to create road blocks to keep you from participating in it (Raising interest rates, tuition, gas prices) whilst blaming you for not spending money you don't have. Other countries recognize that if more of what you need is subsidized by the state, you have more money to spend. The German graduates without insane tuition debt because of subsidized education and so can save money to buy an apartment and some stocks. His American equivalent is 20K+ in debt working at starbucks for minimum wage and will be lucky if he can ever retire.
