Of course, mass migration has many uses or nobody would promote it. For instance, it exorcises, somewhat, “the specter of uselessness”* that haunts so many people in the liquid world.
The arrival of migrants requires an army of bureaucrats, state officials, social workers, etc to process their paperwork, hand out new paperwork, file the paperwork, and come up with new kinds of crucial paperwork. In this way, you can occupy them for years, making it look like what they are doing is extremely necessary.
This is a way of pushing many locals out of the danger of slipping into the welfare class. For this purpose, a cushion needs to be created in the form of a much more dependent and helpless welfare class.
The longer the migrants stay unintegrated, the longer can this game be played. A self-reliant, independent migrant is useless in the game of providing the superfluous locals with the sense that they are not all that superfluous if there are people who are even more easily discardable than they are.
* The term was created by Richard Sennett.
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So the mass arrival of immigrants requires the government to create a vast new bureaucracy within the already bloated government (with the obvious requirement of a new public union to take care of the new bureaucracy’s employees), who can proceed to make a career of tracking immigrants who are incapable of/refuse to assimilate into the culture of their adopted country.
This is a double win for an expanding socialist government. It creates government jobs ( which socialists think provide real job growth), and it expands a growing welfare base of perennial parasites who will invariably vote Democratic.
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There are no socialist governments in Europe. Germany is obviously a capitalist country. The welfare state is only ever strong in rich capitalist countries. Socialist countries have notoriously weak welfare systems.
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“an army of bureaucrats, state officials, social workers, etc to process their paperwork, hand out new paperwork, file the paperwork, and come up with new kinds of crucial paperwork”
You left out a few, you’ll also need a bunch of people to monitor the vast amounts of crucial paperwork being done and creating their own paperwork for doing that, not to mention the complex filing systems (which require their own types of paperwork to keep track of) and computer records (which need to be backed up in paper form and more paperwork to keep track of that).
I worked a couple of years in a bureaucracy and about 80 % of the paperwork we did was keeping track of other paperwork.
At one point, due to state mandate we had to generate a bunch of new paperwork to keep track of it and I was elected to …. file (not exactly the word needed but close enough). The problem was that after three of four days of organizing it, my boss would come up with a new way of organizing it (while new paperwork is flowing into the office) and I’d have to spend a couple of days undoing the previous system and putting the new system in place and …. yet another way would be found to organize it (it was piling up at critical levels when I left as new ways of organizing it were being contemplated),.
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Oh yes. The system mushrooms. And it’s hard to avoid the suspicion that this is the whole point.
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I’ll add maliciously that the countries that produce mass migration tend to not be well…. organized, that is the populations of mass migrants tend to not have values that make it possible to organize things at the state level very well.
Extended family? Clan? Tribe? Ethno-religious sect? |Yeah, they’ve got those covered but “society” is a blank hole, something to try to take advantage of or ignore or try to escape from.
I think that at this stage capital doesn’t like much of any social organization (beyond mass consumption) so bringing a bunch of people from failed nation states into well functioning ones helps undermine social organization in the new state as well.
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You are on to something interesting, definitely. Theorists of liquid capital point out that it thrives on disorganization, on the disturbance of everything stable. So messing things up might well be the goal here.
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I expected that ““the specter of uselessness”* that haunts so many people in the liquid world” might be referring to immigrants, not the people who receive them. Many people migrate because there’s no work (and sometimes no food) in their place of origin.
This post is extremely cynical about modern society and especially welfare programs. There’s much to be cynical about, but this theory about motives of the host countries is weird.
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How would you explain their motives?
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Host countries have conflicting motivations. Business interests seek cheap labor; Labor interests fear cheap competition and seek barriers to migration.
Local communities impacted by immigration fear loss of control and chaos. To avert chaos they are motivated to organize systems to move the migrants along to someplace else; and failing that, to set up housing camps with food aid to confine migrants an protect the local population; or to build border barriers to simply keep migrants out.
Religious and charitable organizations are motivated by compassion, but the supply of compassion is not unlimited.
If governments are motivated to give unemployed workers a sense of usefulness, simpler and more effective methods are available. Public service employment to build infrastructure or simply to clean streets and cut grass in parks is far more cost-effective than creating new bureaucracy.
Mass migration results in unemployment (and cheap labor) far outstripping the number of bureaucratic jobs created to control the migrants.
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There is no demand for unskilled illiterate labor in Western European societies.
People in developed societies who are suffering from “the specter of uselessness” problem don’t cut grass or clean streets. These are middle-class people who want office jobs.
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Yes and no. Still quite a bit of demand for unskilled labor. People working at Walmart and McDonalds, to name a few, are unskilled labor (or sometimes underemployed skilled labor.) Not only that, many of them speak only rudimentary English. The thing is, corporations want to minimize wages. That’s why corporations encourage immigration.
The belief that people in the U.S. refuse to do menial jobs like cut grass or clean streets (or work at McDonalds) is a fallacy. However, a large supply of immigrants is more willing to accept slave wages and abusive employment conditions without complaint. Business PREFERS immigrants who can barely speak English; they are so much easier to exploit.
In local communities with few immigrants (usually economically stagnant communities), you will find McDonalds and Walmart fully staffed by friendly white and black Americans who provide exemplary customer service.
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Germany, on the other hand, has 2,000,000 unfilled jobs because of the enormous outgoing emigration. But none of them are low-skilled. These are all specialized positions in high-tech fields.
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I wonder why people are emigrating from Germany when there are so many good jobs available. It would seem logical for Germany to resolve this problem with an intensive program of education and technical training.
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Yes, they are losing 700,000 people per year! That’s an enormous number. Mostly, Germans leave for the US, Canada and Australia
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