{"id":23957,"date":"2020-12-14T13:10:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T18:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=23957"},"modified":"2020-12-14T13:10:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T18:10:23","slug":"google-ironic-doodle-shows-ignorance-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/12\/14\/google-ironic-doodle-shows-ignorance-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Doodles While U.S. Workers Suffer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sir William Arthur Lewis was honored on Google\u2019s Dec. 10 webpage. Given the Nobel Prize-winning British economist\u2019s position on immigration and wages, that day\u2019s \u201cGoogle Doodle\u201d<\/a> was a richly ironic icon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his 1954 treatise<\/a>, \u201cDevelopment with Unlimited Supplies of Labour,\u201d Lewis wrote, \u201cIf there were free immigration from India and China to the U.S.A., the wage level of the U.S.A. would certainly be pulled down towards the Indian and Chinese levels.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Mass\nimmigration of unskilled labour might \u2026 raise output per head but its effect\nwould be to keep wages in all countries near the subsistence level of the\npoorest countries.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lewis\ndid not define \u201cmass immigration,\u201d but he surely would have recognized it\ntoday, nearly 30 years after his death. Global corporations\u2019 use of imported\nlabor — unskilled and skilled \u2013 has grown far beyond anything Lewis witnessed\nin his lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Google CEO Sundar Pichai<\/a>, himself an immigrant, boasts that “immigration has contributed immensely to America’s economic success, making it a global leader in tech, and also Google the company it is today.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But while applauding its foreign imports, Big Tech fights Trump administration rules to raise prevailing wages<\/a> of that workforce. Lewis foresaw<\/a> such reaction, noting that the fruits of high migration \u201cflow disproportionately to business owners because the deep pool of excess labour ensures wages stay low.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FAIR President Dan Stein<\/a> illustrated the economic bifurcation. \u201cIn 1974, U.S. GDP was $1.545 trillion, or the equivalent of $5.657 trillion in today\u2019s dollars. In real terms, our current $18 trillion GDP is three times as large as it was in 1974, and yet most Americans are no better off than they were then.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This phenomenon can be\nattributed to a number of trends, such as economic globalization, mechanization\nand computerization of production, and the advent of the Internet. But it\u2019s\nalso a byproduct of the age of mass migration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is\nno coincidence that the decades-long stagnation of American wages began with\nthe onset of mass immigration. In 1970, the foreign-born population of the\nUnited States was 9.6 million people; today it exceeds 44 million. What we are\nwitnessing is the law of supply and demand at work \u2013 and it is clearly not\nworking in favor of American workers,\u201d Stein said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In their\neagerness to laud a Nobel economist of color, were the fine minds at Google\nunaware how Lewis indicted their business model?  More likely, they simply don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sir William Arthur Lewis was honored on Google\u2019s Dec. 10 webpage. Given the Nobel Prize-winning British economist\u2019s position on immigration and wages, that day\u2019s \u201cGoogle Doodle\u201d was a richly ironic icon. In his 1954 treatise, \u201cDevelopment with Unlimited Supplies of Labour,\u201d Lewis wrote, \u201cIf there were free immigration from India and China to the U.S.A.,<\/p>\n

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