This is what the open borders hills will never understand, India has like a billion people and since their country is exactly the kind of sh-thole Trump says it is and they all know it, there are who knows how many hundreds of millions willing to work for near slave wages just for the faint hope of a green card. Open borders leads to nothing more than slavery for the country that actually has its act together as its salaries and thus its people are undermined by the flood of slaves craved by the big business cheap labor traitors like Zuckerberg and the Chamber of Commerce.
I turn 66 in 2020. I moved to rural KY where I can live comfortably on SS alone. I’ll continue working while collecting it though, because it will drastically increase my income without much of a tax hit. But If I was a young man today, I honestly do not know what I would do. However, this has always been the situation.
I don’t want to learn new skills to enhance my career’s skillset. I want to refinish furniture, make bike trails on my acreage, fix cars, listen to records, etc. But I can afford to pursue that life. If I were a young man, my goal would be to live as cheaply as possible and save as much as possible - in something that will be immune to inflation - and just be prepared for when there is no work for anyone, due to robotics and AI, not foreigners. And I’d want to hide that wealth because everyone will be supported to some degree by the government, the level at which id determined by your existing wealth level. I see it happening in my lifetime, and I see no other way.
But time will tell.
About 1.3 bn last I looked. Here's what I like to bring up for comparison. It adds perspective to that number:
India has more people than the US and Canada and Europe and Russia and Japan and Australia put TOGETHER.