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Wages are stagnant because technology is replacing people such that even if you're not pulling in foreign workers hiring overseas workers or hiring people that have in turn had their jobs automated is driving down wages. Fixing immigration (which is still something we should do, but let's not put all of the blame on it) is just one step among many we need to restore a stronger economy. The benefits of offshoring and automation need to be shared or we will have a permanent underclass of unemployable people that cannot participate in the economy so they will engage in crime and turn the country into a shithole.
I'm not saying immigration is good. My preferred solution to automation is not immigration friendly (Universal Basic Income, which only works if only paid to citizens).
I just want to make it clear that we need to consider additional solutions because these jobs are disappearing regardless. And even if your job is safe, will it be safe from the 2 million truck driver (and related) jobs when semis start driving themselves? Entire towns exist only to support truck drivers passing through and they will vanish. And this is only one technology we will have to face in the next decade.
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[–] Mylon ago
Wages are stagnant because technology is replacing people such that even if you're not pulling in foreign workers hiring overseas workers or hiring people that have in turn had their jobs automated is driving down wages. Fixing immigration (which is still something we should do, but let's not put all of the blame on it) is just one step among many we need to restore a stronger economy. The benefits of offshoring and automation need to be shared or we will have a permanent underclass of unemployable people that cannot participate in the economy so they will engage in crime and turn the country into a shithole.
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[–] Mylon ago
I'm not saying immigration is good. My preferred solution to automation is not immigration friendly (Universal Basic Income, which only works if only paid to citizens).
I just want to make it clear that we need to consider additional solutions because these jobs are disappearing regardless. And even if your job is safe, will it be safe from the 2 million truck driver (and related) jobs when semis start driving themselves? Entire towns exist only to support truck drivers passing through and they will vanish. And this is only one technology we will have to face in the next decade.