Amerika

If we wanted to invent a gibberish machine, the human media spectrum would do it, because everyone talks to stake out a unique point and be known for it, which means you essentially get religious perspectives where true details become false explanations for everything.

With all of the talk about immigration, you think people would zero in on this, since the whole reason we have immigrants here is to have a workforce to replace the unions and generate enough taxes to pay for end-of-life care for dementia-ridden Boomers.

Immigrant labor displaces native labor. If they start hiring Turks to work on the trash trucks, soon that wage will be the only wage, and they will hire only Turks. Even more, those Turks will be hostile to anyone else who wants that job and soon no one else will know how to do it.

Great civilizations die in a state of not knowing much about how to do things they once did easily, and the answer is that as they grew, they hired more people doing useless stuff, and this raised costs, at which point they had to hire immigrant labor which soon displaced the natives.

Across America, it is difficult to find people in construction who do not speak Spanish. Same with maid service, food preparation, and lawn care. The migrants moved into these jobs, accepted the low wages, and the natives fled because they could not compete.

Natives after all pay income taxes and have higher expectations, including trying to buy into non-ghetto neighborhoods and educate their kids. Migrants get the free benefits, including education, and send money home for a retirement plan. $50k in Mexico could set you up for old age.

Affirmative action made the process worse because it ensured that minority candidates got hired first, driving away anyone else. Entitlements subsidize the cheap labor. In this way, natives were displaced from whole categories of work and now have zero presence there.

Tags: entitlements, immigration, labor