compostor42

The enormous amount of immigrants (both legal and illegal) to the US is definitely a huge factor.

They say the current population won't do the unpleasant jobs that immigrants do because the pay is too low. It seems no one has stopped to consider that those jobs pay so low because there is a seemingly endless supply of cheap immigrant workers to do them. It drives wages down and provides little incentive for automation.

The ancient Greeks invented the steam engine but never really used it because they had no shortage of slave labor. There was no incentive to further develop that technology.

What makes you think I would agree with that? Doesn't follow.

So if black people in your state were being replaced, and that helped your pet political issue, you would cheer on their replacement?

Somehow I doubt you'd say that in polite company. Funny how blatantly racist rhetoric is okay... if the recipients are those mean old whites!

So if the OP had said that he was glad the black people in his city were being replaced so that he could get better support for his pet political issue, you would have no problem with that?

Somehow I doubt you would say that in polite company.

But as I stated regarding my point about automation, we don't need more people, we need less.

We already spend more than any other country per pupil. Many of the "broken" school systems have received massive influxes of cash (billions) and seen no improvement what so ever. Schools can only go so far it seems.

2 Billion spent in Kansas City to fix the schools. No appreciable result. I'm not convinced in the panacea of education. Something else is at work. The by country PISA scores are quite interesting.

What argument are you trying to make? It is not clear.

Undirected? Our elite are encouraging it.

There are countless article published in mainstream media telling us why less white people is a good thing. "White guilt" is pushed heavily.

Can you imagine if the OP had said he was glad blacks were getting replaced in his town because it would help his pet political issue?

And the vast majority of immigrants are non-white.

Read their replies. It wasn't a joke. To that poster, people are interchangeable parts of a machine, to be swapped out when one isn't working in the desired way.

When was the last extended break you had and how long was it?

Take a good chunk of time off with zero computer, technical or online stuff.

When I quit my old job earlier this year (after being burnt out hard) I was able to take 3 weeks off before starting new gig at smaller start-up-ish company. I used ZERO electronics and such over the 3 weeks. No programming books are anything like that.Was finally "refreshed" when I started the new job.

You replied to the wrong person. Otherwise explain.

I don't understand, can you explain?

Increased automation definitely decreases the per capita need for working-class people.

We would probably have a lot more automation already (especially in low-end agriculture/service-industry) if not for a seemingly inexhaustible supply of cheap labor from south of the border.