Molly Charles-Reflections

  Across developed countries there is a new found passion to attack migrants and blame them for disappearing livelihood options, crime and increasing cost of living. But this is a simplistic analysis of a complex reality that is dynamic. There is an overriding false assumption that migrants are taking away jobs that white population yearn or compete for. It is not possible for migrants to enter a country a) without the direct or in direct collusion of the government or institutions and people in power, especially when migration is reality year after year and surplus labour is a way for cheap labour b) migrants cannot enter a country unless there is a need for them, the only exception at a miniscule level would be extreme fear of prosecution at home c) If migrants see a country as a way for improving the standard of living, then that country needs migrants. Yes, the times they are changing, but not because suddenly a white population have woken up to the threat of migrants. Di...

 Am not an economist but the Trade Barrier Report with details on discrepancies beyond trade deficit and tariff on Antarctica indicate something amiss, this along with minute details seem to indicate the master of accuracy and speed – "AI" may be the expert behind the report. Why? Because the great AI:  1) Refuses to or finds it difficult to consider context with regard to trade deficit and tends to stick to the simple logic of whether a= b,   2.   It may be literally impossible for United States to have no trade deficit with all countries across the globe, 3.   Given the economic and development disparity across countries and the global interconnectedness, it is only machine intelligence that will highlight all form of barriers and then insist that no trade deficit with all countries is the way forward, 4.   AI refuses to consider or ignores many exports to developing countries may be part of aid and reciprocity to same degree with regard to trade by the a...