Migrant crisis is part of the larger problem. How are illiterate migrants with no skills or capital going to be able to contribute to an economy where all the low-skilled jobs are being eliminated due to automation?

They probably won't

They're going to be competing with citizens for the dwindling number of low-skilled jobs remaining that require human touch.

That's not the goal of the crisis though.

They aren't being brought in for economic reasons.

It's a race-to-the-bottom in terms of wages.

It's for "moral" reasons.

Look at it from this angle:

A leader who has a stable economy, and pre-emptively defeated Islam terrorists,

"Nice, but you wasted tax money on something that MIGHT have happened... what else did you do?"

A leader who rebuilt an economy and defeated terrorists who bombed stuff

"Thank you for saving our economy and saving our lives, you're a hero"

also they're not brought in for moral reasons, they're brought in for votes

IF the overwhelming public was "Fuck those people" and was vocal about it,

You'd have a country that blocks its borders, thats why Hungary and Poland do it

While stupid sobbing female university students in Sweden may justify uncontrolled migration for "moral" reasons, Merkel and her Eurocrats are justifying it as "they'll pay for our retirement".

Which is nonsense, and everyone knows it's nonsense.

I was watching a video about how ungrateful people aren't happy and how people who are ungrateful see themselves as victims. Basically the TDS faction in a nutshell. They don't see how much good Trump has done and how many future issues are being defused preemptively.

oh its true...

It will be an "early retirement" though 😉

Left unchecked what'll happen is massive wealth concentration and a return to something akin to feudalism, with moneyed lords living head and shoulders above teeming masses living at bare subsistence.

aristocracy

Aren't the coasts of the US basically an aristocracy now?

Not quite that bad, but heading that way.

yeah

CA is ran by the Hollywood Elite

NY is ran by the Wall Street Elite

Silicon Valley vs. junkies living in tents under overpasses.

Tim, the Ç is pronounced like an English S in "sea" for example. Watched the Google is winning the censorship war and that bit me so hard in the butt <:bubuXD:467361348813324298>

To be fair, SF does basically encourage homelessness

SF is an extreme, yes. Caused mostly by their own mismanagement and stupidity.

whens this Unite the Right rally again?

But it's illustrative.

When self-driving cars are mainstream, and Google Duplex has eliminated phone support and receptionists, and kiosk ordering has been deployed at most restaurants, and drone delivery is feasible, that's when the disruption in low-skill employment will start to happen. So not too far off.

People pushed out of those sectors are going to be numbered in the millions, and they'll be forced to compete in other low-skilled sectors that are more difficult to automate.

Forcing down wages in those areas.

and then, self-driving cars will kill suspected Nazi's by intentionally driving them to their deaths 🤔

Jobs that will remain will be those for which a human touch is desired. Like healthcare, or childcare and education.

Wages will be driven down in those sectors, which is both a negative and a potential positive.

Negative in that the people doing those jobs will, all else being equal, be more miserable.

Potential positive in that if you reduce the price of something, you can buy more of it for the same money.

A society that has more nurses, home care workers, physiotherapists, primary school teachers, daycare workers, etc, is probably a pretty good society.

Education is gonna fade, it doesn't need a human touch

Assuming you can keep those people from hating their lives due to oppressive poverty.

@Dr.Wol college level yes. K-12 probably not.

you can get homeschooling for that

Kids in front of screens aren't going to learn shit you want them to learn.

That's another thing.

If wages are really low, you might see stay-at-home parenting become competitive (assuming one parent has a tech job).