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IMHO both immigration and automation are real issues. Agri-business wants cheap labor to avoid having to invest in automation for hard to harvest items - thus
by patrickg_zill 10y ago
IMHO both immigration and automation are real issues.
Agri-business wants cheap labor to avoid having to invest in automation for hard to harvest items - thus they benefit from illegal immigration, a source of cheap labor.
If immigration is in fact cracked down upon, then they will invest in automation rather than paying the higher labor rates that will be in effect.
The flaw in your reasoning is that not everyone has the actual ability to be a knowledge worker, as I think you would define it.
By definition, only the top (25% ? 30%? 40%?) portion of the population can do it well. So what happens to the others?
- nickthemagicman 10y agoHey totally agree. That's the real true blue problem. What happens to the others indeed. UBI, New Deal workforce, we need something. I feel like these are real issues that need to be addressed along with education. Not stopping Bad Hombres and Muslims..
- dragonwriter 10y agoAttacks on bad hombres and Muslims are how the capitalist class keeps different segments of the working class at war with each other to distract them from addreasing their shared problems.
- nickthemagicman 10y agoCorrect! I am aware. It's why I hate Trump so much. "I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half" -Jay Gould