In his article Levitz pushes economist Dean Baker’s solution for income inequality: Bring in lots of immigrant professionals to push down prices for lawyers, doctors, etc.

White it’s certainly true that the kind of people who advocate for lots more immigration tend to either benefit from cheap labor and/or are protected from it by things like professional licenses, still, how forcing American workers out of our professional jobs any solution?

Levitz article also includes quotes from people saying that a college education is the solution for our labor and income inequality problems, which it is not. We got that “everybody will go to college, everything will be fine” line from Clinton in the 1990s and reality turned out to be much different.

Why is it that almost none of our elites can see the big picture with any kind of accuracy — or advocate policies based on the interests of Americans who are not recent immigrants or would-be immigrants or their potential employers or services providers? I realize that technology is — and will continue — to be a jobs killer on a massive scale, making a larger population a disastrous burden, not an economic boon a economic burden. Why don’t they?