The Great Immigration Scam

It's all a lie. Everything you've been told.

There's only one reason for immigration and it's not any of the reasons you've been given. If you want the truth, you just have to follow the money and where it leads is the biggest scam in Australian history. Spoiler alert: You’re the one getting screwed.

So, who benefits from immigration? We each spend around $100 per week on groceries. Immigration has increased the population by about 8 million people over the last 25 years. That's an extra $800million being spent at (mostly) Coles and Woolies each week or a staggering $41.6billion each year. That's a whole lot of motivation to increase the population. And it's not just the supermarkets. Immigration increases the size of the Australian market for pretty much every corporation in the country.

Immigration also increases the supply of labour. Increasing the supply of something leads to a decrease in its price. In the case of labour, that means lower wages. Apart from purchasing inventory, the biggest expense for Australian companies is typically wages and salaries.

So, immigration massively increases corporate revenues and decreases expenses and once you realise that there really is no other reason for immigration, the only conclusion is that:

the sole purpose of immigration is to increase corporate profits.

This can be confirmed by looking at who exactly has been consistently calling for an increase in immigration. The peak lobby group for corporate chief executives in Australia is the Business Council of Australia (BCA). If you do a google search for 'Business Council of Australia immigration', you get results like:

which is pretty compelling, but it doesn't give us the full picture. A better way is to just ask ChatGPT:

We'll get to the above-mentioned justifications for immigration shortly. For now, we just want to see who it is that's behind the push for increased immigration levels and it can be summarised as follows:

1. The Business Council of Australia.
2. Their paid schills.
3. The politicians who have to do the bidding of the BCA if they want any funding for their next election campaign.
4. The useful idiots.

The effects on ordinary Australians

We need to distinguish between "immigration" and "migrant". You can be anti-immigration without being anti-migrant. Same as how you can be anti-floods, but not anti-water. There's nothing better than a plate of sekuwa accompanied by an ice-cold bottle of Everest Premium Lager, but our current record levels of immigration are not due to a shortage of Nepalese restaurants.

Nobody blames the effects of immigration on the migrants themselves. They don't set our immigration levels and they are often the biggest losers in this scam. Anyone who accuses someone of being racist for opposing immigration is one of the useful idiots who are part of the problem that has caused many thousands of Australians to become homeless.

Immigration is great for corporations, their CEOs and their shareholders. But not for you. You're getting screwed. Corporations are posting record profits whilst workers are struggling to avoid homelessness.

There are no positives and too many negatives to discuss in detail here, so I'll leave that for future articles and for now just list them:

• The housing crisis / increased homelessness
• Stagnating wages / cost of living crisis
• A >$50billion bill for additional infrastructure each year
• Massive damage to the environment
• Inflation / high interest rates
• Overburdened govt services
• Increased demands on power / water / etc
• Increased crime rates
• Congestion & overdevelopment
• Decreased workforce training
• The destruction of our culture & standard of living
• Decreased social cohesion
• Dilution of national wealth (natural resources)
• Accusations of racism if they complain

The housing crisis is obviously caused by mass immigration. If the number of homes in Australia was decreasing, then it would be a supply issue. But the number of homes is always increasing and you can't create a shortage of something by increasing it's number. Everyone who says that the housing crisis is a supply issue has some link to vested interests. For example, the most vocal proponent in the Liberal Party is Andrew Bragg and a quick google search reveals that he's a former executive director of the BCA.

Debunking the Excuses

In it's answer above, ChatGPT said "various groups and individuals have called for an increase in immigration to Australia, often citing economic growth, addressing skill shortages, and demographic needs", however these are all deliberate lies. When I say immigration is a scam it's not hyperbole. I mean immigration is literally a scam.

Economic Growth

By economic growth, we mean an increase in the GDP of a country. If you want a bigger GDP, move to India. Their GDP is double ours. If instead you would like a bigger per capita GDP, I would suggest Norway. Their North Sea oil and gas exports makes them one of the richest countries in the world - on a per capita basis. They get to enjoy things like free university, 49 weeks of maternity leave at full pay and guaranteed housing. Their sovereign wealth fund (like our future fund) is worth USD$1.7trillion which translates to over USD$300,000 per person (ours is around USD$5,000). But Norway's GDP is tiny compared to India's.

GDP is not important. Per capita GDP is what's important. Growing the economy by increasing the population obviously doesn't increase per capita GDP. In fact, we've been in a per capita recession for the last 5 quarters. So, whenever you hear about how immigration increases GDP or is "important for economic growth", think of India.

The economic growth excuse is a deliberate lie. Immigration doesn't increase per capita GDP, but what it does do is increase per corporation GDP.

Labour / Skills shortage

If 25 years of mass immigration - adding 8 million people to the population - hasn't resolved the supposed labor or skills shortage by now, it's never going to.

There's no such thing as a labour shortage. There's no set number of job vacancies that need to be filled. Labour is a resource. The demand for labour varies with price - like everything else. If demand for labour was greater than supply, what should happen is that wages increase until supply and demand reach equilibrium. This is not rocket science. It's high-school economics.

It's like me saying "the reason I don't have a Ferrari is because there's a Ferrari shortage" and expecting the government to flood the country with Ferraris until the price falls to something that I can afford. If you can't fill job vacancies, you're not paying enough. If you can't pay more, it's your problem. You're obviously not productive enough. It's not some sort of national emergency that the rest of us need to fix. Nobody owes you cheap labour to keep your crappy business afloat.

It's the same for a skills shortage. If demand for a particular skill was greater than supply, what should happen is that wages for people with that skill would increase. This then attracts more people to learn that skill.

When you increase the supply of something, the price goes down. Flooding the Australian labour market with masses of cheap overseas labour keeps wages down. When they say we need immigration because there's a labour shortage, they are lying. The truth is they want masses of cheap labour so that they don't have to increase your wages.

The aging population

When the Productivity Commission talks about an aging population, they don't mean the baby boomers. They're talking about the far greater population explosion caused by immigration itself. In the report from their 2016 "Migrant intake into Australia" inquiry, they say:

By increasing the proportion of people in the workforce, immigration can reduce the impacts of population ageing, but it does not offer a long-term panacea — immigrants age too.

And that was one of the only two "benefits" they found. The only other "benefit" was a projected increase in per capita GDP in about 30 years time, however they qualified that by saying the models are wildly inaccurate and the result depends on the assumptions you feed into it. (Also, real per capita GDP has been falling since then). They did however mention most of the "costs" of immigration listed above - including the housing crisis. Sadly this report - which is the most authoritative to date - has been ignored.

Rather than a "demographic dividend" as it has been called, it is better described as a "population ponzi". The consensus solution to an aging population is actually to increase workforce participation in the over 65s.

There is another reason given for immigration and that is "We need more migrants to build houses for all the migrants coming here", but I think that's just a joke. They can't be serious, right?

So in reality, the reasons given to justify immigration are "We'll make tons more money and we won't have to keep increasing your wages. Oh, and we're going to cause a population bubble which is going to come back to bite you if you don't keep immigration at it's current record-high level."

Unfortunately, there's not much we can do about it. The government has to do whatever the BCA wants or they'll get no funding for their next election campaign. And it doesn't matter who you vote for. It's no coincidence that the first thing Albanese did after winning the last election was to increase permanent migration.

Immigration is like offshoring jobs to countries with cheap labour, except instead of offshoring the jobs, they are onshoring the cheap labour. The inevitable result of which will be turning Australia into a third-world country.

[Originally published on X Sep 1, 2024]