Earlier, Armed with Knowledge explored the reasons for multiculturalism. Today we will cover one of those reasons in much greater depth: the immigration-based economy.
In a number of ways, the immigration-based economy is similar to the 19th century slavery-based economy.
The slavery-based economy had four features:
- a commercial sector that used slaves, giving rise to a slave-importation industry (slave herders, transporters, auctioneers, financiers), to deliver slaves who would perform services and produce goods - and wealth - for the elite in a way that, unlike with regular employees, reduced overhead;
- an export industry that gained wealth shipping and distributing slave-produced goods;
- a government that protected the institution of slavery and made money off of it through sales tax revenue (on slave-produced goods) and income tax revenue (capitalizing on profits of industries linked to slavery); and
- a criminal element due to the certain aspects of the operation.
Today, the economy has the same, four components:
- a commercial sector that uses immigrants,
giving rise to an immigrant-importation industry (NGO-backed transporters, social-service and integration jobs, law enforcement, financiers) to deliver immigrants who perform services and produce goods - and wealth - for the elite in a way that, unlike with regular employees, reduces overhead; - an export industry that gains wealth by shipping and distributing immigrant-made goods;
- a government that protects the institution of immigration and makes money off of it through sales tax revenue (on immigrant produced goods) and income tax revenue (capitalizing on profits of industries linked to immigration); and
- a criminal element due to certain aspects of the operation.
Under both systems, we see a powerful, monied elite influencing governments that either support the respective system, or design policy to protect it; on the one hand, you have government officials writing laws that help the respective industry or protect its livelihood; on the other, you have government officials interpreting existing laws in a way that favors the respective industry, or upholds the respective industry's institutions.
Slave economy: an interconnected government promoting the slavery economy
Demonstrating how the layers of government interacted and worked together towards this end, there are several points to consider. First, the U.S. Constitution was written in a way that laws could be passed in Congress protecting slavery. Wealthy elite who had invested the slave economy in one way or another thus ran for Congress and made such laws. These elite were also the high-profile, educated class that sat on the judiciary, or connected themselves with such persons, to assure pro-slavery interpretations of law. After all, it was what the economy was built on.
Concerning laws written and interpreted to protect the slave economy, there are plenty of examples. In 1820, the Supreme Court of North Carolina affirmed that slaveowners could use violence towards their slaves (North Carolina vs. Mann). With the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, Congress gave slaveowners the legal protection to retrieve slaves who had crossed state lines. The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott vs. Landford confirmed that slaves from Africa and their descendants could never become U.S. citizens. The decision rubber-stamped the slave industry's exclusive control over the bodies it had invested in for slave labor, thereby closing a loophole that had allowed slaves to potentially flee and become untouchable under a non-slave state's jurisdiction, which had threatened to disrupt the slave economy. There were also state laws punishing Abolitionists who helped slaves escape from the clutches of the slave economy. The above are just a few small, but critical, examples.
Immigration economy: an interconnected government promoting the cheap-labor immigration economy
Comparatively, in the European Union, there is a coagulation to assure the continued influx of cheap labor. The corporate class, which profits off of cheap immigrant labor, sends representatives who sit on the European Commission; the Commission sends immigration-friendly legislation proposals to Parliament. But Parliament is a place where, inevitably, pro-immigration politicians serve who owe part of their success to the campaign donations received from the corporate class. Of course, victory is never assured, but funding helps, as do the pro-immigration educational initiatives that the corporate elite sponsors, which affect the electorate. Similarly, the corporate class dips its hands in the media - specifically, corporate media - which obligingly provides a pro-immigrant message, whether by guilt-tripping the public over some history it is supposed to feel responsible for, or by presenting immigrants as cool through entertainment media, or supplying intellectual arguments about human rights, Africa's ballooning population, Europe's supposed labor shortage or something else pro-immigration in slant. Whatever it is, the result is always the same: the population is inclined to vote for the politicians who support immigration, thus helping the commercial sector get the cheap, imported workforce it wants. The migrant influx, of course, saturates the job market, which effects the forces of supply and demand in a way that keeps wages artificially low, because labor becomes expendable. It also burdens the taxpayer, who must fund integration, medical, social-welfare housing and family-support expenses. Meanwhile, avoiding the burden, the corporations hide their wealth in non-taxable off-shore accounts, as the Panama Papers show, or change their principal place of business to avoid having to foot as much of the bill as they would otherwise have to. The law allows for these loopholes.
The leaders of the European Union push for immigration quotas. Member states have been pressured to amend their citizenship laws to accept migrants without documentation, which would normally be grounds for immediate expulsion. Member states that do not comply with the asylum laws that were passed are referred by the European Commission to court. Meanwhile, the free movement of peoples within the European Union has become a weapon to bring immigrants into pro-immigration states in the European Union, convert them into citizens, and send them to states where they would otherwise have been initially rejected at the border - and is used to this extent. Some states also have laws that make it very difficult to criticize open immigration. The press is under similar pressure to report crimes in a way that does not draw attention to the fact that migrants are responsible. The European Court of Justice has also overseen court cases where NGOs, obstructing national laws by illegally importing immigrants, have prevailed. From these examples, we can see how the preservation of the immigration economy is a multi-leveled, cooperative effort that goes back to the planning of the corporate class and its meddling in multiple levels of government.
The role of world view: slave economy
Now we will examine how world view is shaped to justify each institution. In the 19th century, Christendom had a firm place in European civilization. Like all Semitic religions, Christianity permits, and merely regulates, slavery. The idea of the Tribes, and the story of the curse of Ham, were both part of the construct used to excuse the economy of slavery.
The role of world view: cheap-labor immigrant economy
In today's society, the education system and socio-spiritual impulses are shaped for an economy built on immigration to thrive. A few examples have been named above - guilt-tripping the public over some history it is supposed to feel responsible for, or by presenting immigrants as cool through entertainment media - but, looking at these points holistically, a new religion has emerged. The new religion is one-world-ism, the belief that the differences within humanity are all stereotypes, that all people of all backgrounds may be capable of the same thing and that all the failings of immigration are either overstated or non-existent. Those who do not agree are treated as heretics; instead of being told they will go to hell for rebelling against God, they are told that their ancestors were colonizers who built Auschwitz. Support for the immigration system is treated as atonement.
The collapse of the slave economy: and those invested take everyone down with them
In the end, the economy built around slavery came crashing down. There is this prevailing notion that northern Abolitionists and anti-slavery pundits played some sort of astonishing role transforming public opinion and gradually sweeping support for the institution of slavery out of the government hierarchy. But the key is actually the rise of iron-smelting and steel-based industrial development, and machine-based industrial power, which meant a new, non-agrarian elite had the most wealth, and those atop this industry did not want or need slaves. Yes, they needed railroad workers and miners and thousands of laborers under them, but it was less profitable to clothe, feed and house those whose labor was in demand than to pay out a salary which was barely suffice to take care of these needs. Moreover, because of the dangers of this type of work sending those who you had to purchase and take ownership of would have been a much larger risk than employing those who could perish in workplace accidents or became ill due to overwork and simply be replaced, for free, by the next man in line. Nevertheless, those who were behind the slave economy did not wish to adapt to the new age, or go quietly into the night. Ultimately, the region where slavery was so closely intertwined with economic prosperity and the culture seceded from the United States and, when the forces of the United States failed to withdraw, conflict began and the result was war.
The coming collapse of the cheap-labor immigrant economy?
The rise of automation threatens to destroy many of the jobs which the monied elite - investing in production and services - have used cheap immigrant labor for to minimize production costs. In the meantime, serious problems have arisen in connection with the open-borders mentality that the elite, through law and influence over the culture, have implemented. In connection with the pro-immigration wave, conflicting social, political and cultural interests have also created a divide between the native and new populations. There is a growing burden for the ordinary taxpayer - with the high tax rate - to shoulder, to support the influx of low-wage earning immigrants. As the problems with immigration continue to add up and the advances in robotics move forward, will those who have invested in the economy built around immigration entrench themselves like those who defended the economy built around slavery? Only time will tell.
