• CanadaPlus@futurology.today
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    7 months ago

    I mean, it’s not magic, it’s economics. If you’re putting in more man-hours in a competitive market, you should be getting more products out of the other end. Immigrants can plumb just as well as you, of course.

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      7 months ago

      We don’t need more manpower, it’s our policies that are restricting supply

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        7 months ago

        Those are also dumb. We should stop zoning everything just for the sake of the environment and basic livability, even.

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          7 months ago

          If there were more incentive to build housing then more people would get into construction, not the other way around. People don’t train for industries that don’t pay

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            7 months ago

            Sure. IIRC, though, this thread started with somebody blaming immigration for the crisis. It’s not that, that’s not how it works.

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                7 months ago

                Except immigrants build houses. Sense this discussion looping back on itself a bit, so I’ll check out if there’s nothing further.

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                  7 months ago

                  But they don’t, I don’t understand why you are under this impression

                  Millions of immigrants in recent years and nothing is getting built

                  Need to fix policies before getting more immigrants