Lots of people say they are for immigrants' rights, but they really aren't in practice. There are ideological forces which on the one hand welcome immigrants into 1st world economies, but then are against globalization --meanwhile, both forces work toward one goal, economically --to bring economic parity, long term. Those forces do cause disruption. On the one hand you have the ebb of some industries here but they are expanding and benefiting destitute people elsewhere in the world. So the middle class is saying, they believe they had a "right" of a middle class lifestyle, moreso than people in other parts of thew world.
We can argue if we think there should be 7 billion people who consume goods at the same rate as Americans, Japanese and Europeans, but so long as we accept an integrated world where we want emigration and immigration and further neo liberal economics, this is the progression we are looking at.
When people bemoan the hollowing out of industries while at the same time saying they support peoples in the third world, something is not right. They are lamenting the loss of their jobs but those jobs are being transferred to second and third world economies helping to build them.
What do we do about the people who aren't able to retool for more skilled jobs? It's an open question. Some day something will have to give. Either we figure out a way to manage that or society will suffer the consequences of inattention.
We can argue if we think there should be 7 billion people who consume goods at the same rate as Americans, Japanese and Europeans, but so long as we accept an integrated world where we want emigration and immigration and further neo liberal economics, this is the progression we are looking at.
When people bemoan the hollowing out of industries while at the same time saying they support peoples in the third world, something is not right. They are lamenting the loss of their jobs but those jobs are being transferred to second and third world economies helping to build them.
What do we do about the people who aren't able to retool for more skilled jobs? It's an open question. Some day something will have to give. Either we figure out a way to manage that or society will suffer the consequences of inattention.