Amerika

In public, they tell you we have a shortage of workers in America. Our economy is at risk, my God! If we do not open the borders to tens of millions, we will not have enough workers and consumers to keep our economy dominant in the world.

In private, we can see that the situation has more nuance and depth. White people got driven out of productive jobs and into Office Space make-work email jobs. No one would hire White people at wages they could afford to live on. So they stopped applying.

Looking forward however, we can see how the current debate is gibberish from people who do not understand what we are facing. We do not have too few people; we have too many. Automation is about to replace a huge chunk of our workforce. Why are we fighting this?

On the technological front, automation, AI, and quantum computing appear to be converging. We are going to have much faster machines which can balance multiple factors more easily than arithmetic calculating machines like the older chips.

These new automated AIs will use vision as their primary interface, so they will easily learn from videos and observing others. Humanoid robots can do any general task; custom robots no longer need to be built. Zero-worker factories will be the norm.

In agriculture, robot and drone swarms are already replacing workers because they can run round the clock and do a better job than humans will. With rechargeable batteries instead of noisy gas engines, they can also be silent, allowing nighttime operation.

Food service has seen some radical change because people are warming to the idea of food and drink kiosks where you order through a digital interface and get perfect food every time without a chance of contamination. Lowered costs means lowered prices.

Already we are seeing automated vehicles take the place of Uber/Lyft drivers. There are more glitches here than in most areas, but it is also a more complex task because roads are radically inconsistent in design across the country. This will be fixed over time.

In the big picture, the country will no longer have jobs for tens of millions of people. In addition, women are heading back to the home and out of the workforce (if they are intelligent) so that they can have families instead of toiling for meaningless accolades in childless lives.

We are on a collision course with automation. When it hits, we will need to lose, in addition to the 107 million illegals identified by ICE, another hundred and fifty million non-WASPs. Only with this new lower and more competent population will our economy survive.

Your politicians in the meantime are doing (as usual, historically) the exact opposite: they are adding more cheap labor, sort of like how slavery boomed just before early mechanization replaced much of its workload, because that is what the corporate leaders were taught years ago was the path to success and so they are still beating that tin drum.

The collision happens soon. If we are smart, we ease into this one industry at a time, replacing women and minorities with machines, and then get our own people into roles that use their natural skills. We are going to swap one economy for another.

America has been overcrowded for some time, and also, way too busy. Dale Carnegie business-focus merged with the Great Patriotic War to make us pathological and overburdened. No one has time to think or peace of mind.

Shifting to automation will be a great boon. We will reclaim our lives and, if we are intelligent, realize that subsidizing poverty makes more poverty, so we should cut all of those Keynesian socialist welfare state programs.

We might realize that taxes are a market distortion that drives our currency to constant inflation and our economy to boom/bust cycles, therefore we cannot afford much of those, either. We might see that everything the government touches turns to crap, as Ringo Starr reputedly said.

But even more, we might realize a sense of inevitability to how history is changing. Technology has changed and now we need to lose a lot of people. We will be happier in a less densely populated country anyway. The welfare programs are broke and defrauded already.

As it turns out, this is fortuitous for our long-term future as well. The ethnic Western European core (WASPs) of our country is still here, but we have added layers of SEMI-people and foreign races. When we send the newcomers back, the core of Western Civilization — its genetics — will remain.

Tags: ai, artificial intelligence, automation, economy, quantum computing