Young People Today Can't Even Conceive of Wage Growth

That is undoubtedly what readers of Matt Yglesias' blogpost on immigration and retirement income are saying. Matt correctly notes that an economy cannot collectively save for a generation's retirement in the sense of putting aside the goods and services that the generation will consume in retirement. His conclusion is that we need large numbers of new workers to support our current or soon to be retired population. This leads him to call for a much larger number of immigrants.

While we may wa...