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I don't know that I entirely agree. We've seen a massive investment on the part of say fast food corporations in areas relating to automation. They're pushing t

I don't know that I entirely agree. We've seen a massive investment on the part of say fast food corporations in areas relating to automation. They're pushing the apps, kiosks are in almost every lobby, and more often than not their menus are all digital. As soon as they crack the machine part of a kitchen they'll be squared away. Before they do they'll continue to work the staff they have at low wages and no benefits. Americans aren't going to tend the fields, either. So we have our industry which can almost universally locate their development in an off shore office, the service industry being obsoleted as we speak, and we're going to work on farms? Maybe I misunderstood. It's entirely possible. I just don't see how treating the symptoms will cure the rot. Maybe that's my failing.

rayiner 2y ago
> Americans aren't going to tend the fields, either. Why not? Europeans do it. They also have native born people working construction, etc. This idea that it’s somehow beneath Americans to do that work is all in our heads. One of our neighbors is a young, native born woman who works as a nanny. One of our neighbors is a native born American who cleans houses. You can have a self-contained, sustainable economy where native born people sell each other goods and services. It doesn’t need to be a pyramid scheme that relies on a continual flow of cheap immigrant labor. And you’re right—the service jobs are being automated and outsourced. You know what won’t be automated and outsourced? Replacing roofs. Digging fiber trenches. Installing heat pumps. Remodeling bathrooms. If Americans won’t do that stuff, they don’t have jobs.