More people creates more economic activity and higher productivity, which is deflationary. Fewer people lowers productivity and depresses economic activity, causing inflation. You have it backwards - the real economy is not a closed system with fixed amounts of positions and finite money needing zero sum thinking.
And it’s a good thing all that wealth is evenly distributed and not hoarded nearly exclusively by a small class of families.
I can assure you mass immigration is not good for the working class families of this country despite what an economist might say in aggregate. The reality is more people drives up the costs of food, shelter, medicine, and other resources that are not very elastic.
> The reality is more people drives up the costs of food, shelter, medicine, and other resources that are not very elastic.
This claim is contrary to all common sense. When stores sell lots of certain products, they order more and run sales to attract more customers, they don't raise prices. The supply shocks with eggs and inflation of food prices were driven by disease, war and the opportunism of monopolistic agricultural industries, not because people are buying too much food. Outside of cities, where housing development is usually a political/legal zoning issue, houses are expensive because they've become assets and investments rather than places to live. Apartments are also increasingly monopolized by national and multinational corporations. Housing prices are linked to the population density, but most of the inflation in prices is driven by other factors. There's more than enough housing and space to build housing. Artificial scarcity won't go away by deporting a few people. Some brand name medicines are certainly subject to supply and demand, but I highly doubt immigrants are having a large influence on prices.
In the UK, employers pay a stealth tax of 15% (recently increased from 13.8%) on top of the quoted salary minus the first £5k (recently decreased from £9,100.)
So your "£50k" salary actually costs your employer £56,750, and that's before all the other expenses mentioned elsewhere in this thread such as hardware, office rent etc.
Shocking, only 10 short years since this (when Merkel was Chancellor): Turkey asks Germany to prosecute comedian Jan Böhmermann (Germany's equivalent of John Stewart) over Erdoğan poem
Brits will either say "Fine, thanks" or not respond at all.
Poles will tell you that yesterday they went to visit their relatives, and now they're tired, or that their cat is sick, or that they having problems with something.
It's a difference between "asking when you don't care about response" vs "asking because you genuinely want to know how the other person is"
In Poland you would just say Hej! = I acknowledge you being there but I don't want to chat. But again, back to the point I was trying to make - the intent behind these sort of questions (and answers) can be cultural
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