alt Hacker News> they weren’t getting an endless stream of high-performing well-educated immigrants
That's not how you write "cheap".
But remember, cotton was once also cheap because of the endless stream of immigrants, consequences are paid every day since.
> they weren’t getting an endless stream of high-performing well-educated immigrants
That's not how you write "cheap".
But remember, cotton was once also cheap because of the endless stream of immigrants, consequences are paid every day since.
And there were some wild economic arguments made and accepted in support of this at the time...