im all for this if we outlaw trade with other countries, or force employers in the US to pay US wages to foreign nationals they employ.
that would bring back a majority of jobs that actually pay people enough to get that without a handout.
like programming and engineering jobs from india for example. if we raised the bar and forced companies to pay indians $70,000-$180,000 salary with benefits, it would remove the cost savings of not hiring americans.
and if we brought back jobs for low-skilled people and stopped pretending we could have this 'intelligentsia economy' without fully federalizing education and ensuring each citizen got top-quality education to compete against socialist education models... some people, even with the intelligence just never will have the resources to be part of that in our economy but they might be skilled even, or semi-skilled, maybe just as intelligent as people in big tech but cant work anywhere but fast food or retailing chinese made goods? they dont wanna work at walmart -- they want walmart out of business and to work at the factories now owned by the chinese.
well... even then its not possible because too many people compete over high skilled jobs. we NEED low-skilled jobs that pay well like classic manufacturing simply to free up higher skill jobs and make the entire economy competitive.
otherwise you end up with 100 engineers chasing 1 job, with all other 99 positions filled remotely by foreign nationals to save on cost. Now im not saying that all 100 jobs should be available -- perhaps only 50 are possible on the budget with higher pay -- but there should be another 50 jobs in the economy that actually pay those other people enough to survive.
but there arent in an attempted 'intelligentsia economy' where anything lower-skill or in another area of expertise (a biologist cannot just become a physicist overnight, nor can a coal miner become a programmer so simply) has just been removed from the economy.
if a factory does not open for each lumber mill or paper mill that closes, well then, a majority of those workers may never actually find work greater than minimum wage again.
and even those jobs get very competitive when people are desperate to eat and the corporations constantly keep automating to cut down on staff requirements.
the problem specifically is broken globalist trade with communist and socialist states. we cant be trading with them unless we're on an even keel playing by the same rules. otherwise it will massively hurt the people but benefit the elites as well as the other nations.
if we arent playing by the same rules, then no economic games are fair. and nobody should be benefiting from a rigged game like that. economic numbers be damned -- record profits only count when the people get record pay. otherwise its a sham and we're making less money no matter how much GDP grows.
Aye, it's hard for an employee to demand fair wages when they're competing against illegal immigrants and foreign slave labor. Who's going to pay someone ten bucks an hour to sit on an assembly line when they can get some poor Chinese kid to do it for a nickel?
at this point once this disaster is over enough where its safe to travel im probably renouncing my US citizenship and taking Israel citizenship.
I dont know that things will ever go back to the same here or even close, or how long recovering from all this will take.
but i do know going to fight those palestinians for a few years is a guaranteed job i can get for awhile, and that in a small ethnostate i probably will be able to find work that isnt outsourced to someone else.
even my fam thinks im nuts but its the only place i can go without high qualifications or skills or money. and its a way out, fast purely based on my genetics.
its not that i dont support trump, i just dont have much faith in this place ever getting better. This whole crisis has really made me consider that -- since i have nothing but elderly family who are not long for this world anyway, no career, no love interest, no friends, nothing...
perhaps starting again across the ocean might be a good thing. i just will never be rich so i cant keep US as a dual citizenship once i leave. so its a final thing im never coming back if i go.
problem is id still be doing menial labor across the ocean, paying two taxes would starve me to death still.
im all for this if we outlaw trade with other countries, or force employers in the US to pay US wages to foreign nationals they employ.
that would bring back a majority of jobs that actually pay people enough to get that without a handout.
like programming and engineering jobs from india for example. if we raised the bar and forced companies to pay indians $70,000-$180,000 salary with benefits, it would remove the cost savings of not hiring americans.
and if we brought back jobs for low-skilled people and stopped pretending we could have this 'intelligentsia economy' without fully federalizing education and ensuring each citizen got top-quality education to compete against socialist education models... some people, even with the intelligence just never will have the resources to be part of that in our economy but they might be skilled even, or semi-skilled, maybe just as intelligent as people in big tech but cant work anywhere but fast food or retailing chinese made goods? they dont wanna work at walmart -- they want walmart out of business and to work at the factories now owned by the chinese.
well... even then its not possible because too many people compete over high skilled jobs. we NEED low-skilled jobs that pay well like classic manufacturing simply to free up higher skill jobs and make the entire economy competitive.
otherwise you end up with 100 engineers chasing 1 job, with all other 99 positions filled remotely by foreign nationals to save on cost. Now im not saying that all 100 jobs should be available -- perhaps only 50 are possible on the budget with higher pay -- but there should be another 50 jobs in the economy that actually pay those other people enough to survive.
but there arent in an attempted 'intelligentsia economy' where anything lower-skill or in another area of expertise (a biologist cannot just become a physicist overnight, nor can a coal miner become a programmer so simply) has just been removed from the economy.
if a factory does not open for each lumber mill or paper mill that closes, well then, a majority of those workers may never actually find work greater than minimum wage again.
and even those jobs get very competitive when people are desperate to eat and the corporations constantly keep automating to cut down on staff requirements.
the problem specifically is broken globalist trade with communist and socialist states. we cant be trading with them unless we're on an even keel playing by the same rules. otherwise it will massively hurt the people but benefit the elites as well as the other nations.
if we arent playing by the same rules, then no economic games are fair. and nobody should be benefiting from a rigged game like that. economic numbers be damned -- record profits only count when the people get record pay. otherwise its a sham and we're making less money no matter how much GDP grows.
Aye, it's hard for an employee to demand fair wages when they're competing against illegal immigrants and foreign slave labor. Who's going to pay someone ten bucks an hour to sit on an assembly line when they can get some poor Chinese kid to do it for a nickel?
at this point once this disaster is over enough where its safe to travel im probably renouncing my US citizenship and taking Israel citizenship.
I dont know that things will ever go back to the same here or even close, or how long recovering from all this will take.
but i do know going to fight those palestinians for a few years is a guaranteed job i can get for awhile, and that in a small ethnostate i probably will be able to find work that isnt outsourced to someone else.
even my fam thinks im nuts but its the only place i can go without high qualifications or skills or money. and its a way out, fast purely based on my genetics.
its not that i dont support trump, i just dont have much faith in this place ever getting better. This whole crisis has really made me consider that -- since i have nothing but elderly family who are not long for this world anyway, no career, no love interest, no friends, nothing...
perhaps starting again across the ocean might be a good thing. i just will never be rich so i cant keep US as a dual citizenship once i leave. so its a final thing im never coming back if i go.
problem is id still be doing menial labor across the ocean, paying two taxes would starve me to death still.