And if they displace someone trying to join the engineering workforce say right out of school? What about housing?
replyThere is no fixed demand for jobs, nor fixed supply of housing. Immigrant consumption creates a lot of jobs and immigrant labor creates a lot of housing
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replyLook up the "lump of labour fallacy". The jobs market is not a zero-sum thing.
replyThe timescale that the "lump of labour fallacy" operates on, as in the aggregate effects on employement, doesn't necessarily work for most people (individually).
replyTherefore it isn't really a good metric at the scale required to alleviate the problems people are facing.
"Eventually it will work out." Isn't proffering a solution.