By Liam DeBoer | BlendrNews.com

Western governments have many incentives for mass migration. Overwhelmingly and increasingly staffed by progressives, the state wishes to expand its authority over social relations and the economy. After all, how are you going to redistribute wealth and ensure equitable representation in cultural settings without first controlling it?

Many would consider the rising cost of living a failure. To those being crushed by it, this makes sense. However, consider the state’s perspective. A population arriving faster than it can be housed, schooled, or treated puts strain on the system. Then the state reacts to this by increasing spending in those areas, exerting economic control. A failure of the state becomes the pretext for expanding it.

This increase in population also creates the opportunity for false marketing. At the height of the immigration surge, headlines were written about Canada’s growing economy, which isn’t entirely false, but eliminates the distinction between GDP and GDP per capita.

For instance, if five people lived under one roof, each making $50,000 a year, the annual GDP for that group would be $250,000. If you then added five more people and everyone’s earnings slightly decreased to $45,000 a year, the GDP would be $450,000 annually, nearly double what it was prior, despite the fact that each individual is actually making less.

There are also now 10 people bidding on who gets a room, food from the fridge, or space in the yard, which will inflate the cost of every resource, again, while people make less. This is exactly what happened in our economies: fewer earnings, higher costs.

Mass migration is a great example of what Rob Henderson would call a luxury belief: opinions that confer status on the affluent who are sheltered from the consequences of their belief.

Consider Mark Wiseman, co-founder of the Century Initiative. This lobby group, which had partnerships with The Globe and Mail, one of Canada’s main media outlets, aimed to have 100 million people in Canada by 2100. That would equate to roughly 800,000 per year, meaning what we got from 2022 to 2024 was more than their targets.

Once these policies proved disastrous, Wiseman failed upwards. He now has a seat on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s advisory council.

Lastly, if you want the state to direct social and economic life, you need to ensure that there are no revolts when said central planning inevitably fails. By fracturing the nation into an endless number of different group factions, while also telling those groups to celebrate their diversity or differences, each group becomes more prideful and less able to cooperate across cultural lines.

Some would call this divide and conquer. The state’s interest was never a thriving citizenry, only a growing one.

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