Reposted by Mark Arnest
I did a big dive to see if I could literally find any labor market variable that was better for native-born workers now than it was in 2024, and couldn't find anything. And, well, nothing.
Here are the ten biggest misses, but there's so many more.
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Can We Find Literally Any Sign Deportations Are Helping Native-Born Workers?
Shoot the moon! Ten hypotheses, ten charts, and no payoff for native-born workers.
![A quote from Bryan Magee's "Confessions of a Philosopher":
It is true that in temples, mosques, synagogues and churches they [people] offer lip-service to true values, and feel better for having done so; and those values may even sometimes be taught in schools; but, again, no sooner do people leave such places of instruction than they behave in their old ways. Worse than that: if any of them does not do so – if one of them sacrifices his interests to someone else’s, tells the truth to his own disadvantage, declines to be sycophantic to people with a lot of power or money – the others remonstrate with him and tell him not to be a fool. If he persists, they lose respect for him: they come to look on him as stupid, someone who does not know how to manage his own affairs, someone making a botch of his life. The truth is, then, that the values people publicly acknowledge and pay lip-service to are in reality values that they not only repudiate but actively despise. It took me a long time to realize this, but when I did I came to understand in a new light the evident frustration and even despair of so many prophets and teachers, their isolation, and their characteristic tone of railing at people who they know are not going to take much notice of what they say.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jvtddjgapbch2o2astnsuxbc/bafkreigmwfeozwokcooorppffyq57ium2hubypydo23hzlsvzagun26eyu)
