Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!
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Social security trust funds were already on track to be depleted in 2033 give or take a few years, without additional loads to the system. So what is the end game here? Anticipated election votes for one party is the driving force with border policy.
I have been trying to figure out the goal of letting mass illegal immigration, I have 5 possibilities.
(1) We need lots more low level workers to keep labor cheap and to pay for social security?
The problem with that is exactly what you state that these kinds of jobs that will be going away.
(2) Is it a plan to make millions vote blue?
The thing is how are they going vote if they are illegal, or not US citizens, maybe they are thinking after we have 20 million we cannot do anything and we will just have to make them citizens? Or is it the census to increase more compress members in blue areas? Is that they are hoping that AI will insure they never work so they will be a big block of poor people who will need big government to take care of them and that will be the dems? Such a plan is very risky.
(3) It is some conspiracy to destroy the US system and bring in Marxism or something?
I am not sure how that works and also are there that many Marxist in high level places to make this work?
(4) My favorite, it is just a self-organized phenomena of short sightedness driven by of (1) and (2). (1) is actually led more by wealthy capitalists class that think sure AI will replace everyone but not for another 5-10 years so I need my cheap labor now, also people look
at Europe and think who is going to pay for the old people, I know more young people! (2) Is lead by the left wing who thinks the migrants will all vote blue 5-10 years down the line. So this is kind of wink wink nod nod just let them in. s
(5) There is no real political incentive to push for closing the border because suppose you are on the left or right and you vote to deport people, you put barbed wire, than you are going videos of people dying and crying being sent home, and emotions will sway a large enough percentage of the voting block so just let it go and go and hope somebody else's does something about it.
Also corporate profits from the domestic economy, will naturally increase with population, as domestic consumption and investment goes up, generating wealth from the stock market (which again can be taxed through capital gains or other taxes) and greater wealth for the US population, through 401(K)'s or other retirement accounts.
Likewise, property values will go up, helping property owners, landlords, banks, and state and local finances, improving government services and education, helping state and local governments meet unfunded pension liabilities and avoid default.
It is certainly true that this entire situation, might lower wages for domestic workers, further increasing corporate profits, but that is unlikely to be a motivation, I would think, it is more of a side effect.