Oddbean new post about login | logout Your grandad’s story reflects a time when migrants contributed directly to rebuilding a war-torn nation through hard work and integration. In the modern UK, uncontrolled migration has led only to a massive drag on the welfare system, and far higher rates of violent crimes compared to native Brits. It is a classic case of anarcho-tyranny. The fiat system’s failings and failings of managing migration are inseparably linked.
In other words, no one is upset by peaceful, hardworking polish men like your granddad migrating to the UK. It is the violent dependent welfare class that is the problem.
I agree it’s not sustainable, but i think it’s a symptom. The real solution is a case of ‘fix the money, fix the world’.
There’s no doubt the failing of the fiat system and migration are linked. The fiat need for constant growth at all costs incentivises and requires the cheap labour to continue flowing in. Especially in the face of declining birth rates, which is probably, in part, also due to the fiat system and the insidious effects of inflation.