Denmark should offer them a few hundred thousand eggs in exchange for Puerto Rico
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https://x.com/spectatorindex/status/1900650273904955693
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https://x.com/Acyn/status/1900648555087585749
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From The Economist - high skilled immigrants are positive to the economy. Low skilled immigrants are a drag on the economy.
https://x.com/garettjones/status/1900612606039330954?s=46&t=o3XUPKxiqJH7KZYdWMCtqg
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https://x.com/Acyn/status/1900696970882412908
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https://x.com/billmaher/status/1900756912200970500
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Going purely off that graph, it shows literally nothing about highly skilled unless youâre racist.
Now, I canât read the article nor the study it references, but Iâm guessing they didnât do much work into why it might be the case that immigrants without degrees tend to cost the state more, such as routes to migration for such immigrants (which for the UK tends to overwhelmingly be dependent visas or asylum, the latter of which naturally costs the state a lot given the amount of time it takes to process them, and the amount of time they spend economically inactive, which also compounds the problem since who is going to hire someone whoâs spent longer out of the workforce when they can hire someone fresher?)
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Donât want to go there anyway.
https://x.com/HackingButLegal/status/1900667015620387158
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https://x.com/ianbremmer/status/1900634515527160157
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âPresident Trump continues to be the greatest shot talker in history.â
I assume thatâs a typo.
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That finding is ânet contribution to public financesâ, and therefore highly sensitive to per capita social spending. I donât think I would rush to universalize a Danish finding on that basis.
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My understanding is that theyâve come to the same conclusion in the British Treasury as well. They just havenât said it because itâs impolitic to do so.
The mass migration youâve seen in the UK that happened under the Tories was in part due to the Treasury wanting GDP growth, even though GDP per capita growth has been flat for two decades.
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Now youâre getting there.
Now extend your learning into why uk GDP is flat and to keep this thread on track extend that thinking to a future US.
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Certainly could be, but nonetheless it would be a result highly sensitive to particular conditions. In particular, I am not sure it would hold up for the US.
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Yeah, there is no âlâ needed for him to take Putinsâ shot
Puerto Ricans 
would love that.
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From my limited contact, most Puerto Ricans are fairly patriotic, and polls have shown they would overwhelmingly choose statehood over independence. Puerto Rico has been part of the US since 1898, and citizens since sometime around WW1. They are not particularly fond of Trump though.
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