January 29, 2007
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A Tennessee Reader Wonders If Knoxville Horror
Will Be Covered Like The Duke Rape Hoax
An Economics-Minded Reader
Questions Skill Transfers
Re: James Fulford’s
Thomas Sowell On Economics And Immigration
From: An
Economics-Minded Reader
With regard to your Sowell
piece, the brewer technology example that you mention is
very good. Importing technological and
scientific skills not available here, as we did between
the World Wars and which were
necessary for national defense, makes perfectly good
sense. But is that the present case?
I doubt it. In what areas
are the people exporting countries ahead of us? It is
certainly advantageous to
businesses and
universities to keep payrolls down by importing
people. They can offer the lure of gaining access to
all that Americans have invested in their country
and that their home countries have not. Of course,
equally-qualified natives can not compete with this
subsidy and must give up working in these areas, at
least in part, unless they are positively superior to
the imported labor.
James Fulford writes:
see
Latin American Immigration Unlikely to Spark A New
Renaissance and
The Arts May Need Trade, But Not Immigration
by
Steve Sailer for more
on why modern-day Mexican immigration is not the same as
nineteenth-century
Braumeister immigration.
Sowell's point was that
"skills
have never been evenly or randomly distributed, whether
between ethnic groups, nations, regions, or
civilizations."
What that means is that if the
labor force in a particular occupation doesn't
"Look like America"
it may not be the
result of a plot. But modern mass immigration is
actually lowering the average skill level of American
workers.
