Immigration is irrelevant. It's automation that's the real issue. And Pres Trump and his voters are living in some wistful golden era where Trump can bring back all of those magical jobs and "Make America Great Again"
Scrotus Trump has barely addressed education policy which is the solution to allow people to join the new knowledge economy. As a matter of fact he put a completely incompetent person in charge of the dept of education.
Trumps views are either dishonest, predatory, or completely delusional.. I'm not sure which.
> Immigration is irrelevant. It's automation that's the real issue. And Pres Trump and his voters are living in some wistful golden era where Trump can bring back all of those magical jobs and "Make America Great Again"
It's not that at all. Trump realizes that, for example, the steel industry would not employ as many people as it did in the 1970s even if we barred all imports. It simply takes far fewer people to produce a ton of steel today than it did back then.
But for people who would work in steel mills today if the jobs were still around, why shouldn't they get first crack at jobs that are still around today that are not vulnerable to automation and imports, like landscaping or hanging drywall, rather than those jobs going to low-skilled, low-educated immigrants, illegal or otherwise, who in many cases are working under the table, not paying income taxes?
The Democratic party is stabbing those people in the back. Those people don't want UBI, they want decent jobs. And they're being royally screwed by the party to whom they were so loyal for so long.
> Trumps views are either dishonest, predatory, or completely delusional.. I'm not sure which.
> The implications of all of them are terrifying.
Trump's views are based on putting the interests of working-class American citizens ahead of the citizens of other countries, unequivocally and unapologetically.
And the Democratic party and their smug upper-class elites do indeed find that terrifying, as well they should. Trump is not like other gutless Republicans who are either in the pockets of big business, or who are still afraid to be called racist.
And that's why they're going all in to destroy Trump. They realize that if he's successful, it could be the beginning of a sea change that could drive the Democrats out of power at the federal level for decades.
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?
Hey 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..
Attacks 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.
Scrotus Trump has barely addressed education policy which is the solution to allow people to join the new knowledge economy. As a matter of fact he put a completely incompetent person in charge of the dept of education.
Trumps views are either dishonest, predatory, or completely delusional.. I'm not sure which.
The implications of all of them are terrifying.