>economically illiterate retard
How does it feel to disagree with almost every economist, including Republican ones? Trickle-down is literally the original "good goyim" policy.
>before calling SJWs a serious problem?
That may be a problem to answer as I don't know what you would call an SJW. Gamergate stuff, for an example, are pretty much a non-problem to me.
>What should, in your opinion, be idolized?
Nothing, thats the thing.
>Is this not accomplished by requiring said immigrants to provide value to society?
You don't even need to "require" it. They boost the productivity, GDP, new jobs, new consumers, reduces costs, and unlike people on this board believe, people don't want to live their entire lives on a shitty welfare check. People do want work, and create households, wealth, etc.
>How would you deal with full-time wages being lower than living costs?
There would be a UBI/Negative Income Tax, but pragmatically I don't push for that in the current climate, and neither of these are necesarily a critical change to me. High minimum wages federally are retarded on diverse countries like the US also, fighting that is more import to me than straight abolishing it.
>Do you not see this is a contradiction?
Not really. The real populism doesn't come from the people against poverty, but rather the inequality based folks, like Bernie Sanders, that ran half of his entire campaign on this talkpoint, and people loved it.
>when do you consider it good/ useful?
Adam smith recognized national security concerns as a reason for some protectionism, but even then its kinda limited. Example are things like Energy, Oil, etc.