Highly emotional members of the left have been known to bemoan immense wealth. Possessing a fixed pie, zero sum view of the world, they imagine that wealth is taken as opposed to being created.
Which speaks to one of the beauties of immigration for members of the right: it exposes the left’s beliefs about wealth and inequality as rather baseless. When desperately poor immigrants risk their lives to get to the U.S., they not infrequently migrate to the richest of the rich cities. That’s where the opportunity is. Score one for the right.
Except that certain aspects of immigration expose the right as similarly foolhardy. It’s popular on the right to say it’s not fair that border towns like Yuma, AZ suffer the elite’s comfort with immigration and alleged desire for cheap labor. The critique fails.
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