| No- economists are the people with compasses, when the question usually are “can you help find my keys.” Econ models are good, but their pretty useless to normal people. For example In this scenario the reason that economist say that immigration is a net positive, is because those immigrants also need Food
Water
Clothes
Shelter So the addition of those people ends up increasing total demand. Econ is brought up to win arguments, while policy is hidden away. The fact is that wages will go down because automation is crushing it and firms now have the ability to set prices for the market. Immigration is a convenient concept, but ultimately useless in diagnosing or dealing with the problem. Problem is America has a lack of good jobs, humans are hard to retrain and most of your welfare and support systems have been systematically gutted. |