It's so easily forgotten that people aren’t a cost. They’re an input, always and everywhere, and this truth won’t lose any validity as robots proliferate. Quite the opposite.
Which is why it’s useful to respond to Manhattan Institute (MI) president Reihan Salam’s recent observation about immigration in an opinion piece he penned. Salam asked “If the classic case for openness to low-skill immigration is that newcomers do the jobs that Americans won’t do, what happens when robots can do them instead?” Salam could perhaps be persuaded to rethink his question. Or withdraw it altogether? Think about it.
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