There is a good book on this topic "Selfish reasons to have more kids" https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-selfish-reasons...

Edit: scrolled down to medium effort, its better but also has a weird clipping issue with the fish in the beak.

So I think this supports the point that Canadian politicians are bad for protectionist trade policies, right?

(starting long before the current trade war)

A market price is determined by the intersection of supply and demand. Do you understand this concept? If not, I can use examples or link to better explanation.

Adding highly skilled immigrant workers to the labor pool will marginally effect labor prices (most likely hold them from rising, not decreasing them). So the talent pool would be smaller, maybe worse / maybe better, but definitely higher priced.

In 2015, Trump took a position on excessive immigration and illegal immigration that made him very popular in the Republican primaries, even considering his very obvious character flaws. Like Ross Perot before him, there was a groundswell of support from people who (rightfully or not) feel like their country and their inheritance they are leaving younger generations was slowly being destroyed (the social fabric that makes America a great place was being shredded).

This policy decision is a continuation of that political shift. This is, quite literally, Democracy in Action. The people wanted to see a change and elected a very unorthodox political leader to enact that change.

> It has honestly been easier to use Anthropic to help me build my own search index & crawling infrastructure than deal with Google.

That's great to hear! FWIW I agree with you that it's harder for independent professionals to get started on Google dev services than others, but the Search API is not developer service and was never intended to be.