Immigration Sustains Dying Towns

Capitalism needs new consumers. That’s why Canada is increasing the number of new immigrants. Capitalism can be described as a create, consume and discard process.

Immigration sustains it, as older people lose the propensity to buy at a whim. Most of them have lost the appetite for travel and entertainment, and that makes them low impact consumers.

Immigration provides new consumers to buy winter clothing, video games, food processors, lawnmowers, cars, laptops, diapers, strollers, bicycles, start small businesses, rent apartments or buy houses. Most importantly, immigrants pay tax on these goods and services like everybody else.

That’s money for the government, but it short changes the public because it doesn’t stress the connection between immigration and the dollar.

For some political parties, anti-immigration is bait for elections. Real estate companies and used car dealers depend on immigration, but they’re not standing in front of the Twitter class extolling its virtues.

Capitalism creates a need, that we need the latest model of everything. These used to be immigration wishes, to go and live in America, the perceived land of milk and the dollar. Online shopping is here, so you don’t have to leave your country to dress, talk and walk like an American.

Capitalism creates the need to consume in large quantities and kids are the target. It’s even worse for immigrant kids who speak English or French in a particular way. Possessing certain clothes and tech gadgets demonstrate that they are in sync with the new country.

Once again, the more immigrants consume, the more money the government makes. Immigration consultants and civil servants that work in immigration departments know its value. You don’t, because you don’t like the color of some of these immigrants.

While in that self-audit, just think about your industry or other industries. You’ll be amazed at how most of them have an immigration component. That guy is filling up his tank at the gas station. He’s an immigrant, and part of the economy.

By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.