Good point; we are at a point where the only “middle-class or better” jobs in this country in the non-unionized private sector are STEM-related - and they are importing hordes of Asians to do those jobs.
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Finance, insurance, business, logistics, real estate are all areas where Asians, er let’s be honest, Indians, are invading and taking over.
We do have the trades, however, looking at typical max salaries, they top out at maybe $35/ hr to $40/ hr (seen on various sources). And it takes decade or so to get out of apprenticeship hell.. Sure some do, of course, make more (as some Freepers are sure to remind us)
Those of us 40 and above can’t start back down at the bottom. Our bills sure don’t. What’s left for us?
Even the trades are steadily bleeding good jobs; contractors show up with semi-skilled illegals to do more and more work (they aren’t just landscapers). A friend working as a roofer for years was told he’d be let go if he didn’t learn Spanish; they wanted him to supervise a group of them (otherwise he wasn’t worth paying anymore).
The real danger is that the under-40 American demographic watches this unfold and has basically refused to breed.