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Comment author: CronoDAS 12 September 2015 05:55:50PM *  6 points [-]

Waaait a sec.. how can this be true? This seems counterintuitive: the average US citizen would probably have less high-income jobs available to them if not less jobs overall as they have to compete with immigrants too now.

Lump-of-labor fallacy. The number of jobs in the economy is not fixed; the more people you have that are good at doing stuff, the more stuff gets done overall.

Comment author: LessWrong 17 September 2015 11:45:50AM -2 points [-]

Isn't that the job-makers that decide how many jobs are available? It doesn't really matter how many people are lined up for a particular type of job.

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