The enormous amount of immigrants (both legal and illegal) to the US is definitely a huge factor.
They say the current population won't do the unpleasant jobs that immigrants do because the pay is too low. It seems no one has stopped to consider that those jobs pay so low because there is a seemingly endless supply of cheap immigrant workers to do them. It drives wages down and provides little incentive for automation.
The ancient Greeks invented the steam engine but never really used it because they had no shortage of slave labor. There was no incentive to further develop that technology.
So if the OP had said that he was glad the black people in his city were being replaced so that he could get better support for his pet political issue, you would have no problem with that?
Somehow I doubt you would say that in polite company.
But as I stated regarding my point about automation, we don't need more people, we need less.
We already spend more than any other country per pupil. Many of the "broken" school systems have received massive influxes of cash (billions) and seen no improvement what so ever. Schools can only go so far it seems.
2 Billion spent in Kansas City to fix the schools. No appreciable result. I'm not convinced in the panacea of education. Something else is at work. The by country PISA scores are quite interesting.
There will be hardly any countries with a white majority left by 2050. Countless instances of the media, activists and politicians telling us how less white people is a good thing. Being white is the new "original sin" in the secular liberal mind.
Calling the demographic change "unguided" is laughable.
Read their replies. It wasn't a joke. To that poster, people are interchangeable parts of a machine, to be swapped out when one isn't working in the desired way.
When was the last extended break you had and how long was it?
Take a good chunk of time off with zero computer, technical or online stuff.
When I quit my old job earlier this year (after being burnt out hard) I was able to take 3 weeks off before starting new gig at smaller start-up-ish company. I used ZERO electronics and such over the 3 weeks. No programming books are anything like that.Was finally "refreshed" when I started the new job.
> We don't need more human drones; when properly funneled, increased immigration can mean a better economy.
Agreed. Importing millions of unskilled laborers is insane as automation picks up. Those jobs will be made redundant in short order. (They probably already would have been, but a massive pool of cheap labor meant little incentive for automation. Similar to the first steam-engines being unused by the ancient Greek ruling class http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/HeroAndLoon.htm)
Bringing in the select best and brightest from other countries is certainly wise though.
Increased automation definitely decreases the per capita need for working-class people.
We would probably have a lot more automation already (especially in low-end agriculture/service-industry) if not for a seemingly inexhaustible supply of cheap labor from south of the border.
From the perspective of the elites who encourage unchecked mass immigration to drive down labor costs and secure reliable voting blocks "import" is quite accurate.
They say the current population won't do the unpleasant jobs that immigrants do because the pay is too low. It seems no one has stopped to consider that those jobs pay so low because there is a seemingly endless supply of cheap immigrant workers to do them. It drives wages down and provides little incentive for automation.
The ancient Greeks invented the steam engine but never really used it because they had no shortage of slave labor. There was no incentive to further develop that technology.