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.

> We don't need more human drones; when properly funneled, increased immigration can mean a better economy.

Agreed. Importing millions of unskilled laborers is insane as automation picks up. Those jobs will be made redundant in short order. (They probably already would have been, but a massive pool of cheap labor meant little incentive for automation. Similar to the first steam-engines being unused by the ancient Greek ruling class http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/HeroAndLoon.htm)

Bringing in the select best and brightest from other countries is certainly wise though.

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.

From the perspective of the elites who encourage unchecked mass immigration to drive down labor costs and secure reliable voting blocks "import" is quite accurate.

>Why is being white so important? What's the difference?

Replace "white" with "jewish" and you'd fit right in with holocaust deniers/apologist.

So just to be clear, you have no problem with ethnically cleansing a nation to change its political disposition?

Purposeful demographic replacement of white people to achieve political ends. Lovely.

Vast majority of immigrants are unskilled.

Letting in a few of the best and brightest from other countries makes sense. Importing millions of central/south American peasants is idiocy.

So why not let the entire population of Africa move to the United States? Borders are an antiquated concept according to you.

Automation like this is why I call BS on the "we need more immigrants to keep the economy going!" folks.

We will be struggling to keep our existing population employed. The last thing we want to do is import even more low-skilled labor who will soon be made redundant.

Increasing automation means a declining population is a godsend rather than a problem.

Policy makers must be aware of this. I suspect the call for increased immigration are politically motivated (replacing the existing population with a more reliable voting block) rather than sincere economic concerns.

This recent article is a great example. The author gleefully explains how replacing the existing white population with immigrants will reduce the NRA's base.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/10/19/...

Never thought about it this way but there is probably a lot of truth to it.

Older people have had people trying to feed them bullshit for much longer. They know what it tastes like. They can smell it coming.

Of all the software places near me, the ones that are known for 60+ hour weeks exclusively target young, fresh out of school candidates who don't have the experience to know they are being treated like crap.

Indeed. I don't disagree with you about the Unions at all.

Unions aside, there was the same butt-hurt regarding blue-collar oil field workers making 100k+. The New York Times ran endless articles complaining about the shale oil boom.

Non-elite flyover whites making good money seems to really upset a certain segment of the population. How dare they make a better living them me doing physical labor!

Most people have been taught to look down on blue-collar manual labor. Seeing them makes good money upsets them. Even the OP expressed his distaste for the oil-field workers.

The idea of blue-collar workers getting well-paid is very upsetting to some white-collar workers. They feel their social status threatened by people they deem beneath them.

Does anybody else find it creepy when people say things like "diversity in any field makes it richer","diversity is our strength", etc... with a straight face? Very Orwellian.

Honestly, who talks like this in real life besides some HR drone? Its like you have these canned, cliche lines programmed into your brain or something.

They could have an an amazing project here but fail solely because their name is already used by much more well-known projects.

30 seconds of googling could have prevented this.

More feeling of accomplishment because lifting increases testosterone much more than cardio.

Video does not play on either Firefox of Chrome.

Can someone post a transcript or the gist of his message?

The point is that lots of roads don't have visible lane markings. If the self-driving mode doesn't work correctly with out them then it won't work on many US roads.

>he claimed that his wartime work was really motivated by a desire to work on space travel.

Reminds me of Gerald Bull.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Bull

He just wanted to build his space gun. He had no qualms about building artillery for Saddam Hussein if it meant his efforts would get funded.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXgtNqCe9Ko

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_gun

The car using them is fine. Their absence alone causing failure is worrisome.