More Mexicans are leaving the United States than migrating into the country, marking a reversal of one of the most significant immigration trends in U.S. history…
“It’s not like all of a sudden they decided they missed their mothers,” Myers said. “The fact is, our recovery from the Great Recession has been miserable. It’s been miserable for everyone…”
While the U.S. economic recovery is sluggish, Mexico has been free in recent years from the economic tailspins that drove earlier generations north in the 1980s and 1990s. The peso is relatively stable, inflation is manageable, and while many parts of Mexico suffer grinding poverty and violence, others — especially in the more industrial northern half — have become thriving manufacturing centers under the North American Free Trade Agreement, producing cars, airplanes and other heavy equipment.
Immigrants seeking economic opportunity are the descendants of those early humans who fled outward into untapped niches, to escape the K-selection behind them. There they multiplied, until K-selection began in their new homes, and then they fled again. Today you find these migrators have the same long form DRD4 polymorphism which predisposes to liberalism, they have an innate desire to seek out novel places and experiences, they are averse to conflict, prone to promiscuity, prone to addiction to dopaminergic stimuli, and when the bounty ends, they migrate right back off in search of free resources (and dopamine) elsewhere. This is another reason to not fear an economic collapse. A lot of rabbits will drift off to Caribbean islands and far off places with easy pleasure.
This is also evidence that our economy is not doing nearly as well as they claim if you factor in the rising costs of food, housing, health insurance, and other necessities which are not allowed into inflation calculations. Immigrants are now finding that menial labor just doesn’t pay enough in the US to allow them to eat and have housing, so they are heading back to Mexico, where everything is cheaper. It says something about Obama’s tenure when people migrate to Mexico, for better jobs and opportunity.
This would indicate that the real Misery Index, using pre-1994 calculations and real numbers, would probably show a rise in Economic Misery commensurate with the skyrocketing of the Conservative Policy Mood graph. That bodes well for Trump and Cruz.
Of course, this is not even close to apocalypse levels of K-stimulus. When the debt bomb and the consequences of our monetary policy catch up with us, we will see some real movement toward conservatism. All of this is just prelude.
Apocalypse – it’s well on its way.
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What about the argument I sometimes hear from my libertarian friends that immigrants are fundamentally hard-working, risk-taking, entrepreneurs that want to seek out freedom? I think the example he has in mind is early settlers to america. The idea is that only a K who bravely faces the elements to start a new business in a foreign country would immigrate. I’ve also seen statistics that say 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants are lazier and not as hard-working as 1st-generation ones. Think of a chinese immigrants who works 12 hours a day in a laundromat say, while his kids go to school and play video games all day.
It depends on why they are immigrating. Those with skills or drive who are fleeing rabbit oppression to compete are great. Those with a third grade education and are fleeing lands where they could have competed are not looking to compete, and thus they end up coming primarily for the welfare. Today is different from the past. In the past it was accepted that if you didn’t go balls to the wall once you got here, you’d end up in the street and nobody would help you. Today you know there is no risk, and I think that attracts the high long form DRD4 carrying resource seekers.
Unfortunately high-long form DRD4 carriers have the genetic addictive tendencies, and even if they were K-ified by shortage as kids, their kids will tend to have the ability to go r very strongly if their parents succeed and provide them with safety and security.
What you need is an immigration environment which promises harshness and exhaustion to new immigrants, with no amelioration of risk or danger, to weed out the r-strategist resource seekers. Once they get here, there has no be no safety net, and constant threat, to the point that they hear about it before they migrate. And you can never offer shelter to those fleeing wars for their land, because you’ll be opening the doors to cowards who lack what it takes to protect freedom, as demonstrated by how quickly they gave up their own lands when times got harsh.
Good points, I had forgotten about the part of the book that talks about being K-ified by shortage. I’ve done fasting before and I know some religious people do, but I always vaguely thought that fasting was related to hedonism. Like, drug-addled hippies going to rehab for a little recovery in an austere, shortage-imposed environment before returning to the hard partying in a cycle.
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