Quote from: K-Dog on Jul 04, 2023, 12:27 AMI am sure there are plenty of hard working people in European and Asian shitholes who keep their kids up late burning midnight oil to learn physics, math and engineering. Something our binge watching make your own reality woke generation of fourth turning working age Americans won't do. If metals and money were there, workers would be found. America would just have more people. Same as it ever was, but with less stuff for everybody overall. Less food and none of it cheap.
Bizzness likes foreign workers who work for no benefits. They work and go home. Sometimes they stay and bring family. If they stay we get new restaurants so it is all not so bad. It would be hard to find an Indian restaurant in my area if we had no Microsoft. As things are we have grocery stores that are Indian themed up our ass. I like curry so I have options. Nice! Same thing with Asian restaurants.
If immigration was the solution to the worker shortage problem, how come they haven't solved the Nursing shortage by importing more nurses? How come the Driver shortage isn't being solved by importing more truckers?
Where are you going to find the affordable housing for this new population of immigrants? There is already a shortage of affordable housing for the people currently living here.
Are new immigrants credit worthy enough to buy all the new Teslas rolling off Elon's production line? Are the power utility companies credit worthy to float more debt to finance the build out? They already can't service the debt they have.
Immigration is no longer the Magic Bullet for Amerikan Bizness it was when the French gave us the Statue of Liberty to encourage all the poor Frogs to leave Paris for the streets paved with gold in Amerika, and poor people worldwide have come to grasp that life here for poor people isn't a whole lot better than where they are, unless it's some war torn country that has already achieved failed state status. While Libyans and Somalians still jump at the chance to come to Amerika, it's not so true of Germans and Chinese.
Solving the labor shortage is not as simple as increasing immigration anymore. The situation has become much more complex as collapse has progressed and Amerika is no longer a growing economy.
RE