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andrewmutztoday at 6:15 PM1 replyview on HN

When a person relocates to a country where their labor is more productive, a large amount of new economic value is created. Much of that value is captured by the migrant through higher earnings, but a lot also accrues to the people in the community they join.

So an engineer joining a country that already has engineers still creates a ton of value in the destination country


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Avicebrontoday at 6:21 PM

And if they displace someone trying to join the engineering workforce say right out of school? What about housing?

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