Don't Worry About Peak Oil, Worry About Peak Youth

[Kinser79]

(05-20-2016, 10:28 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: RE: Importation of cheap labor.

The chart in the article in the OP is global. Cheap labor will no longer be a thing, even in other countries.

Capitalism abhors expensive labor, as such I fully expect that automation will come to the fore before the price of labor becomes too dear.

Quote: Plus, with the tightening labor markets in the typical source countries for immigration into the US, the types of people who've immigrated here in the past will be less interested. Case in point, everyone's whipping boy, Mexico. We reached a point a few years back where more legal and illegal US residents of Mexican origin were leaving the US than entering. As usual, people who are upset about immigration from Mexico are fighting yesterday's war.

A great deal with the problem with immigration is not Mexicans. Mexico has developed to a point now that people are immigrating to there (well they always have but people seeking jobs in particular is a newer phenomenon, previously it was looking for land). The problem with the southern border is that it is currently undefended, and also those crossing are typically crossing Mexico's southern border.

It is interesting though, Mexico just built a state of the art Border Wall but the US doing the same is somehow evil? The point behind controlling immigration is primarily cultural. There has to be time given for those who are here to be assimilated before we can take more in. Also given the scarcity of jobs adding more people to population constitutes a burden on the people already here.