Can’t find a job? Get educated, moron. Most for free. If not free quit buying lottery tickets. Skillshare is only $180. Isn’t that how much they waste on lotto?
Oh, Khan Academy is free and offers college courses.
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After Covid there have been a lot more opportunities for Pell Grants and other forms of government educational subsidies. Go to your local community college and ask to see a counselor. You dont have to attend classes there but they can help you figure out what to do and how to get there.
Well yeah, they are. Because if someone gathers skills, then minimum wage is irrelevant. The point of minimum wage is to give people without skills the ability to get their foot in the door. It's never and should never be a "living wage".
Don’t think I conflated. Feel free to show me evidence. You did it before. I believe in you!
Seriously I can believe in minimum wage hikes as basic Keynesian economics. And then also shame people for being too lazy on get educated to make higher wages. I don’t see the hypocrisy.
Is a carpenter, plumber or HVAC specialist unskilled to you? Because…it’s in the name. I’m talking literally unskilled labor workers. Probably a good 30% chunk of Americans.
Yes, it's important to learn a skill. If your skill is in demand in the jobs market, so much the better. Unless you're so retarded that some else has to tie your shoelaces for you.
you should be telling that to liberals namely feminists who believe in the patriarchy, minorities who believe in systemic racism and the LGTBQ who believe in homophobia and transphobia
I never said Google wrote the study. don't put words in my mouth
yeah a library that only contains certain books and forbids other books. Google already admits to omitting results so don't kid yourself with Google being reliable
As usual, you're barely coherent, so no one really knows for sure what you're trying to lecture us about, but the economy still has some need for unskilled labor.
No…we don’t. Sorry. I don’t want them to starve but I have to drill home the UNEED of unskilled labor. We’re a service economy now. What skills make you lucrative.
As usual, you completely misrepresent even basic facts. Your source does not say what it claims you say it does; furthermore, you're deceptively trying to conflate legal immigrants with illegal invaders, who are generally not highly skilled.
Finally, even high-skill immigrants as a group may not have as you term it "a higher number of skills than citizens". They're often hired because they are less expensive to employ or are easier to abuse.
Just stop embarrassing yourself, Odd. How about answering what you think constitutes "unskilled work".
I read the whole thing. You didn't. You compare apples to oranges and, as I point out, falsely conflate two very different groups of people to draw false conclusions. To you, being from outside the US automatically confers super powers on someone and being a white American makes them, in your eyes, worthless.
You just continue to show you're dumb, can't understand facts or statistics, and are a partisan fool. But you've wised up a bit- you now say "conservatives" rather than "white people", which is what you really mean.
It's actually previous immigrants that are hurt most by illegals (African-Americans have been as well). But that's a nuance you aren't intelligent enough to understand. No serious nation prioritizes foreigners over its own native-born population.
Not automatically but there is a consistent and correlative trend in immigrants and their children. That gives rise to people like Charles Murray believing Asians are smarter.
No Asian immigrants have gone through hell and back to get to America and become tiger parents to their kids, with sometimes disastrous outcomes. But mostly lots of STEM grads.
You're cherry picking here, talking about a self-selected group of people that usually themselves "have not gone through hell" to get to the US. And you miss the point- the point is not that there aren't talented people outside the US (there are very many of them), the point is whether US citizens and permanent residents should be displaced by them. In some cases, there is a lot of nepotism and discrimination involved in this displacement.
Legal immigration should allow in entrepreneurs who can bring their own investment capital or can source it from private investors, and some very highly skilled people such as mathematicians. If it's mass immigration, it drives down wages and raises the cost of living for ordinary people.
There are plenty of employers who want modern-day indentured servants. That doesn't benefit anyone but the employers, and it harms society. We should not allow it, and certainly not anyone arriving or overstaying illegally.
One other thing- generative AI is likely to reduce headcount in a lot of professions. It makes no sense to import large numbers of people when that is the case.
That’s propaganda by right wing assholes to get your vote. If you are actually displaced by a newly arrived immigrant…that means you live i a shithole and work a meaningless $2/hr job.
-Lower-skilled Americans (especially African-Americans and previous immigrants) have been displaced by newly arrived illegals or ones who have come before them (pick your timeframe). -More skilled Americans have been displaced by HB1s or other immigrants
You're obviously too dishonest to admit these simple truths.
As for AI, you have to keep in mind that people being illegally brought in by your beloved criminal Biden Administration and aren't just here for this year. They and perhaps their descendants may be around for decades, so that's the proper time horizon for AI, not just 2023.
I work in the accounting field, and AI is very much in the process of making a difference. And you don't need to be a techie to notice the difference in software capabilities and other forms of automation between now and, say, 2003, or even 2013.
It’s pretty set research that immigrants rise quickly in the economy, starting businesses or going to school. Hell even illegals work as much as possible to send money across the border.
And the illegal who edges my yard with a weed eater in 10 seconds is a fckin artist.
Even people with IQs between 81 and 90 are going to have a great deal of difficulty with most technical material. That IQ range is technically not a disability.
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