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Re: True Left breakthrough: non-economic explanations
« on: September 28, 2021, 10:00:37 pm »
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-23/eu-nationalists-vow-to-keep-migrants-out-despite-boon-to-economy

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban hosted the leaders of the Czech Republic, Serbia and Slovenia at a demographic-focused forum in Budapest, where he said immigration was a threat to the survival of western civilization rather than an antidote.
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The stance also clashes with a raft of economic studies that show immigration boosts the economies and wages of countries that open their doors to foreign workers. The International Monetary Fund has said that for every 1 percentage-point increase in the inflow of immigrants relative to total employment in rich nations, output increases by 1% within five years.

They will not be convinced by economic arguments because they care about being Westerners, not about the economy. Therefore they will only be persuaded to open their borders if threatened by something else that will make it even harder for them to be Westerners than open borders e.g. nukes. So long as nuclear-armed countries lack the stomach to nuke them, Turandom countries will keep their borders closed. There is nothing mysterious about this. Economic appeals will have no effect on those who do not care about economics, just like ethical appeals will have no effect on those who do not care about ethics.