The thing is since our government doesn't enforce our laws, they're prodominately moving to the construction industry (because of the pay). So while I think the elimination of labor through technology is a good thing in my mind, they'll flood the jobs that many Americans can and definitely want to do.
We would already have this stuff if cheap slaves weren't available to be easily exploited. Citizens with rights are just too darned expensive for the would-be plantations.
Just doing the jobs illegals won't do.
"...the robot can be set to (work) 24 hours a day right through the night without the need for a break."
Hmmm...Border Patrol robots...now there's an idea.
What's going through my mind is...what's going to happen to many third world nations when even labor isn't necessary via technology?
Everyone will be needing an education to even function. Not that I don't think there are major benefits to this kind of society...I just have doubts that many countries can pick-up the pace in this area....sometimes I doubt our educational system will keep up.
Robotics are great but they require a skilled person to set up and maintain. When I was a paint room foreman I kept track of two paint robots. They did a fair job but the total system wasn't ideal so they required lots of tweaking when there were parts or color changes.
Overall the two bots probably saved us from hiring one and a half extra painters.
A tight labor market produces beneficial side-effect in the way of technological advance?
Who knew?
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DUmmies railing on about the supposed menace of a non-existent 'labor shortage' seem intellectually incapable of grasping the negative impacts that a glut of unskilled and uneducated labor have upon society.
Illegals don't have a say until they become legal and can unionize.
A new constituency for the dems. takes shape: the robot vote. Look for robot riots demanding rights.
One would hope that our Congress would think of the long term impact of amnesty to a large number of untrained workers. The only way they will be useful in the future will be if we also provide the education to make them useful.
The more pressure we keep on Mexico, immigration-wise, the more reformers inside of Mexico can be emboldened and empowered to scale back monopolists' abuses down there which keep our own country flooded with economic refugees. Here's an interesting new thread on new legal progress that finally emerged in Mexico I think as a result of immigration reform's failure:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1611677/posts
We can make a difference for our sake, and their's as well. Isn't it the neighborly thing to do?
Like Bush said, "It's a job American slobs won't do"
Heh! Maybe with time on their hands, thanks to robotic devices doing the jobs Americans don't want to do ... the hostile invaders of our country may use their time wisely to learn English so that they might progress to better jobs.Nah ... Too much trouble ...
WTF?!?!? For mowing lawns?
The foreigners who are coming in by the millions won't be affected anytime soon.
The POTUS says the illegals are doing jobs that Americans won't do.
An American is a 'Citizen of America"
So we have a lot of Americans that are from Mexico, China, VietNam, South Africa etc. These people, according to the POTUS won't do what the illegals will do.
OK so I'm on a roll here.
If we make the illegals 'American' then according to the POTUS they won't do the jobs that they're now doing because they're 'American'.
OR, is the POTUS really being a racist in saying that 'Americans won't do these jobs', is he really saying 'Whites won't do these jobs but Mexicans will' or is he saying that once the illegals become 'American' they won't do those jobs?
Also if the illegals become 'Americans' will they then be required to pay for their health care as they now don't?
When they need to file with the IRS for back years, how many will qualify for the EIC?
Since they've been working for so cheap, how long before they seek reparations?
It just seems to me that there is not really a good solution and it looks like we're heading towards the NWO at a pretty good clip.
