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by literallycancer 3496 days ago
The market isn't "supposed" to work like anything. It just works some way, just as gravity does. It doesn't have feelings, it doesn't have preferences, it just is.

You may support some nativist policies since they are advantageous for the group you are part of, but why try to make it sound like it's some kind of universally just way to do things?

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People always seem to forget about this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy

Because they subscribe to a given model of economic theory and understanding that is widely accepted?