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If Dale was right then you could improve living standards by encouraging people of working age to emigrate and cause population falls.

'common sense' says you haven't🤨😉

The populist right over here and in the US (especially the current US administration and their MAGA-loon cult-like cheerleaders) have kinda become almost an accidental free promotional tool for your book really, haven't they.

Thusly informed. Thanks

Indeed as someone has to give Bezos more profits ..

And then have a mega egg platform to pretend they know … of course truth is immigrants are more productive

Agree, but the lump of labour fallacy is schoolboy stuff. Any good faith competent commentator should recognise this. See also: the purported trickle down effect

‘The UK economy is basically like budgeting for your household‘

Thank you - I’ve learned something this morning !

Whilst we're on the subject of supply and demand debunking, why didn't corporate landlords go bust in the aftermath of the COVID lockdowns? They'd sooner (and were able to) eat years of losses, rather than lower rents.

cue rogue trader TTRPG being interupted by someone who knows trade and why piracy will fail

Indeed. A related/popular idea that all deflation = bad is doing a lot of damage today. Even as voters tell us it’s EXACTLY what they want.

The frustrating thing about discourse is that the UK is actually world leading in a number of “sitting in offices tip tapping” industries but yet the entire commentariat and political establishment basically hates everyone in those industries.

We really haven't moved far from people arguing that the sun goes around the Earth, because "it's common sense innit?"

I really don’t get how so many people simultaneously believe immigrants only contribute to demand and not supply when it comes to driving up housing prices, and only to supply and not demand when it comes to taking away our jobs. It’s almost like there’s some motivated reasoning going on here.

Which Jonny foreigner came and took Ian Dales chunky six figure salaries from him? None. How many Jonny foreigners did Ian Dale hire to do his building work/maintenance/car washing/odd jobs etc during the period he mentions? More than he’d realise or admit I’d wager. Weapons grade hypocrisy.

Has all the hallmarks of “people have had enough of experts”

"For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."

Public debt=Private savings.

And I may have read it…. Nicely written as well

But you are ignoring the impact on individuals & groups who experienced wage suppression as a result of immigration, especially in the 2000's. It was substantial for many at that time. When they hear experts deny their life experience they become prey for those who want to weaponise that experience.