It's not completely irrational. It's a fixed placative number yes.

But reality is also we don't produce more food than we already do. More people means more import and it's actually lowering the quality of the available food, making shopping more complicated, etc. And that's just the food quality aspect, what about pensions? Health care? ...

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foldr 4 hours ago | parent [-]

>what about pensions? Health care?

What about health care if there's no more 'room' for the immigrants who make up a substantial fraction of health workers in Switzerland?

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logancbrown 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Swiss people are perfectly capable of becoming health workers? What kind of argument is this?

	▲	foldr 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's an option, but it takes a long time to train and recruit locally, costs a lot of money, and you'll probably have to increase salaries to get the required numbers. If there were an easy and cheap way to recruit all the required staff locally, that would already be happening.