Steve Sailer writes: Because the limited number of Australians have an entire continent to themselves, the Lucky Country is the best place in the world to be an average bloke. (Miller himself is from a more bourgeois background, one similar to that of Nebraska director Alexander Payne: both are the sons of Greek immigrant restaurant owners.)
Unlike in the Mediterranean, the Canberra government has cracked down hard on blue-collar illegal immigration by boat, so Aussie miners can still make up to $200,000 per year servicing the Chinese construction bubble.
Back in 2012, Australian iron ore heiress Gina Rinehart, the richest woman in the world at the time, complained about the high wages she had to pay, calling for bringing in more foreign workers. “Africans want to work, and its workers are willing to work for less than $2 per day,” she ominously observed. In America, she would have been instantly invited to conferences in Aspen and Jackson Hole to articulate to her fellow billionaires her important insights about fighting racism through re-imposing indentured servitude. But in Australia she was hooted down for her lack of mateship.
(In contrast, Australian politicians are united in promoting white-collar legal immigration. Eventually, Australia will wind up with an Asian managerial class. Whether these future rulers will continue to tolerate the natives’ expensive tradition of egalitarian fraternity is a can Australia’s current leadership prefers to kick down the road.)
