It’s called ‘pathological altruism’: a narcissistic need to be so seen to be ‘nice’ and ‘kind’ that they end up inflicting shocking harm. Think of the ‘refugees welcome’, nosy-nana types who are so brainwashed by their cult of ‘kindness’ that they embrace even murderous rapists into their homes and are promptly raped and stabbed to death. In one particularly jaw-dropping case, an American woman befriended her mother’s killer: he killed her, too. In the same house.
It’s bad enough when these loons enable their own destruction. When they inflict it on a societal scale, that’s another thing entirely.
Case in point: younger Australians are the most likely to toe the woke line on mass immigration. While the destructive effects of mass immigration are well known, it’s younger Australians who suffer the most from them.
This is the irony. The mass immigration economic model beloved by the Albanese government is tantamount to open war on the living standards of younger Australians, and parents dislike it more than the kids do.
Yet the kids keep voting for it. Younger voters demonstrated an overwhelming preference for Labor and the Greens in 2025, the highest levels in 40 years of the Australian Election Study. Yet, these same children nominated cost of living and housing as their overwhelming issues of concern.
Putting two and two together is clearly not their strongest point.
Real wage growth for young Australians has been pancaked throughout the mass immigration era.
Home ownership rates have been crushed over the past decades by rising prices. This is primarily financialisation, but immigration undoubtedly makes it worse at the margin.
And in this cycle, the true bete noire of Aussie youth living standards has been the rental shock delivered by an Albanese government that drove immigration levels to unprecedented levels while crowding out dwelling construction with Labor government infrastructure investment and failed energy policies.
This is a disaster for the young Australians who voted Albo in, both financially and mentally.
These idiots are cutting off their own noses in a pathological drive to spite their own faces.
Older Australians are a hell of a lot wiser. Older Australians are far more likely to support slashing immigration than the kiddies.
This is usually ascribed to social progressiveness in the young versus social conservatism in the elderly, but is this true?
Australia’s older populations are now dominated by freedom-loving Baby Boomers. These are hardly social troglodytes.
A better description is that older generations are graduates of the school of hard knocks, whereas younger ones, by definition, are not.
In other words, youth is a fatal combination of blinding ignorance and supreme, arrogant certainty. Something we all remember from our own youths.
And something the political class is only to eager to exploit to their own advantage.
First, more warm-bodied Australians means higher income taxes. This satisfies the political need to deliver near-balanced budgets. There is nothing essential about this, and it could be done much more constructively by other means, such as cutting spending on bureaucrats and properly taxing mining, but imposing the burden on youth is a free kick versus blowback vested-interest campaigns that attack the government.
Second, it delivers headline economic growth. That it smashes GDP per capita can be brushed under the carpet, and the government of the day can crow about its growth credentials.
Third, the pollies are neck-deep in property investments themselves and refuse to do anything that might jeopardise their value.
A quick scan of the political register of interests shows that around 70 per cent of federal MPs own two or more properties, with more than half owning multiple investment properties. By contrast, just 15 per cent of taxpayers do. Twenty-one of the 32 MPs who own four or more properties are Labor or Greens.
Slashing immigration would nobble their income and wealth.
Cutting immigration wouldn’t cut house prices, but it would stop price increases almost dead. More tellingly for the landlord class dominating Canberra, it would crash rents – the single biggest millstone around young Australians’ necks.
It would also strengthen wages, notably at the entry level, where youth predominates. Contrary to popular belief, Aussie immigration is mostly unskilled, and entry-level jobs are awash with surplus labour.
Lower immigration would obviously lift productivity considerably as well. Since the advent of the mass immigration economy pre-GFC, and especially so afterwards, Australia’s failure to match investment with the scale of the people intake has led to severe capital shallowing […]
Albo’s immigration-led economy is a standing disaster, marked by four years of crashing living standards.
Except for the political class, including the PM, who recently added a clifftop mansion to his property portfolio at the same time he was evicting, without reason, the tenant in his rental property.
The whole thing is a gigantic scam to enrich the political class, especially the left: and left-voting youngsters are the ones cheering it on the loudest.
