It’s worth mentioning that the videos perspective and conclusions are made within the lens of a capitalistic economy. Other economic models differ in their needs for economic stability. It’s also worth noting that capitalism has its own internal contradictions that have no real solution.

If we extend the logical basis of the video we end up with a scenario where the economy requires infinite growth which requires an infinitely expanding population to sustain. This is just not possible within a closed system with finite resources.

In conclusion we have yet to reach a point of overpopulation, however we aren’t very far from it given the compound growth required to sustain the most common economic system we utilize. Humans have used more of our natural resources in the last generation than all generations of the past put together. We will eventually have to change our economic system and adapt one with a much much lower consumption rate, figure ways to limit our population growth, or more than likely both.

I mean, therein itself lies the problem … people are just seen as a statistics, “line must go up” mentality

And your tirade against immigration is in opposition to seeing people as a statistic…?

If your argument is supposedly against “line goes up mentality” maybe a better target of your claims should be aimed against capitalism, not a poor interpretations of economics claiming how immigrants are bad for the economy.

also i’m not racist

Just have the same ideas as racist, sure…

“bolstered entire industries”, i.e. has increased the value of companies at the stock market. people’s wellbeing depends on their individual economic situation. the stock market is the economic situation of the rich.

The stock market is one representation of the productivity of a nation. The individual distribution of that productivity is negotiated via labour negotiation.

If 200 million people produce twice as many goods as a 100 million, that just means that just as many goods are being produced per person, and that’s what matters.

Where did you “learn” economics…? Production works on a scale, meaning that 100 million people working with the same efficiency as 200m people will never be able to be as productive.

An old population with a low birth rate, so that the working population isn’t overburdened taking care of retirees kids, as people in the medieval ages faced, where everybody had 6 kids.

Lol, only one of those scenarios has any evidence to support it. The reason people had a lot of kids back then is because they required labour to work the land. The kids were the working population you dolt.

You have no fucking clue what you are talking about.

Lol, quotes “economics 101” ignores the basic concept that capitalist economies require growth…which requires a larger population every generation to avoid recession. Something that only immigration is projected to be able to provide.

Don’t attempt to utilize your poor interpretation of economics to veil your blatant racism.

GOP senators had been working with the White House on the stock trade bill, and some supported a broad carve-out to exclude the president from the ban, but it failed, with Hawley joining Democrats to block it.

Looks like the carve out failed because Hawley and Democrats blocked it. That’s probably why he’s actually upset with Hawley. Tbh I’d be fine with the carve out of it actually helped the bill pass, it’s not like trump really has any qualms with breaking the law.

Yeah… No. I’ve posted on that sub not knowing the community rules and had a mod thank me for my insight and then politely inform me of the rules.

You know what I did…? I apologized for not reading the rules before posting and then took my leave. It’s perfectly fine if you’re not a whiny little dweeb about it. People deserve private spaces, especially considering I don’t own or contribute to the cost of that server space.

Eh, it’s a matter of perspective. I doubt even hardcore Zionist would claim to be lacking in ethics.

Yeah, the options for EV in the US are pretty horrible, and it’s mainly because US manufacturers want to have their cake and eat it as well. They don’t want to invest in EV manufacturing, which imo is fine. We shouldn’t have to prod corporations into remaining relevant. However, they are also spending millions of dollars lobbying the government into protecting their market from competitors and into overturning climate initiatives.

We won’t ever see these corporations invest in EV until an outside player forces their hands. Amazing how quickly the faux love of Free market economics became a thing of the past the moment there’s an actual threat of competition.

Best case scenario imo is that America car manufacturers shit the bed so hard that Americans actually begin to start to care about public transportation. Trains are the most effective and efficient mode of transportation and always have been, ev are just a band-aid.

I mean, I would consider that a failure at very least in general ethics.

Netanyahu has stated that Israel will move to annex parts of the Gaza Strip if a ceasefire agreement with Hamas is not reached

Soo, this basically is a guarantee that no actual cease fire will ever happen…

It’s still upsetting that the west in general still fails to challenge the government of Israel’s narrative when it comes to any “cease fire”. First of all, a cease fire generally implies that both sides are still engaged in hostilities. When in reality a cease fire in this scenario is more of the offer of the cessation of a genocide, which they could do unilaterally at anytime.

Secondly, there was already a “cease fire” deal where Hamas returned hostages and Israel failed to stop hostilities and never released their hostages. There is no reason to assume Israel is ever going to negotiate with any sort of good faith, and it should be called out to by anyone within reaching distance of a microphone.

I still can’t believe Rand Paul is in charge of anything… His neighbor could have made a nice chunk of change if he had sold tickets to that ass whooping.

A bunch, tip that shit all the way until it hits the floor.

I mean…who cares if Hamas steals some of the food? Are we thinking that the few remaining Hamas members are capable of eating it all, or that the war has been so ineffective that they have a huge military force able to eat enough food to feed hundreds of thousands of people’s worth of aid?

It’s such an obvious excuse to just starve an entire population that it’s a huge shame that every journalist and politician doesn’t call them out on it. Israel has become a nation that exists in a constant state of cognitive disorder.

It’s so weird seeing people making poor interpretations of another ethnicity’s culture their entire identity. I wonder if there are weirdos in India rocking lederhosen or milkmaid outfits at random music festivals and ranting to strangers about Calvinism?

I mean… If you’re a giant piece of shit there’s been a lot to celebrate this year.

Congress has been dog shit as always, but the courts have significantly expanded the power of the executive and seem as though they are going to continue to do so. Once the justices got away with basically ignoring the concept of precedent with roe vs wade they’ve basically been handing down vibes based rulings since.

It’s going to be interesting to see how the current court stands by their rulings if we ever get anyone slightly left of George Bush back in the White House.

The jobs being replaced were not able to be filled by local workers.

According to…? There is no requirement saying that the companies must attempt to place jobs locally beforehand.

Once local worker market is exhausted and employers search overseas the demand supply equation changes, the US has the highest paying jobs generally so what is a 15-30% before rate salary in the us is a high salary overses.

Yeah… But the most common occupation listed is for it/computer science which is a already a highly saturated labour market. There are plenty of highly educated and experienced locals to hire from, companies like amazon just don’t want to shell out the money they were spending when people were aggressively headhunting during the pandemic.

There is the clause that these workers must be paid within the averages of their position and there are examples of companies breaking that. Thats an enforcement issue and not reflective of the program.

But the DOL is responsible for enforcement and the program. How can it not be reflective of the program? This study goes into depth explaining how corporations take advantage of H1b to harm the labour market.

No, the rule is that it must match the “prevailing wage” which is the average amount of is the basic hourly rate paid on public works projects to a majority of workers engaged in a particular craft. Public work is usually significantly lower than private work.

"The two lowest permissible H-1B prevailing wage levels are significantly lower than the local median salaries surveyed for occupations. The two lowest H-1B wage levels set by DOL correspond to the 17th and 34th wage percentiles locally for an occupation. This translates into salaries that are significantly lower than local median salaries—17% to 34% lower on average for computer occupations (which are among the most common H-1B occupations). H-1B employers can reap significant savings by selecting one of the two lowest wage levels instead of the Level 3 wage (the median, or 50th-percentile, wage) or the Level 4 wage (above the median, at the 67th percentile).

h1b workers are being brought on as temps for specific projects so their salaries are below the average for what that company pays for devs overall.

Companies are hiring them from 3rd party outsourcing firms as a cheap labour pool, not as temps for specific projects.

“Outsourcing firms make heavy use of the H-1B program. Half of the top 30 H-1B employers use an outsourcing business model to provide staff for third-party clients, rather than employing H-1B workers directly to fill a special need at the company that applies for the visa.”

H1b program doesnt hire that many workers first of all its a tiny fraction of workers. Secondly employers need to apply for the visa for the position before they can search overseas.

Yes, but only because there’s an actual cap of how many H1b are allowed each year.

If thats getting approved then there isnt the local talent to fill those roles.

There is no such requirement for a visa being approved…

This doesnt drive down the local labour costs because its still easier to hire locally than import labour via h1b system.

This ignores the real value of h1b for management. Besides being able to pay less for talent, you also have a lot more control over the worker. They aren’t able to take better offers or join/start labor organizations, and turn around is often one most costly aspects of jobs with higher education levels. Locking in a highly educated professional with little to no room for advancement for 6 years is going to be highly attractive to any manager.

There is evidence I found suggests the h1b workers are paid 15-30% below market and that should be enforced better.

The real problem is that the 15-30% likely isn’t accounting for the experience of the worker. I work in a field that requires a lot of education and licensing, and when initially starting a career you really should be getting about a 20-25% raise every two to three years. A lot of the times this is done by getting offers from different organizations, which just isn’t an option for H1b workers.

But its still a win win for all parties, employer fills their role, employee gets a high paying job

I think it’s naive to believe that this isn’t a ploy for employers to pay less for specialized labour. The employer wins, the H1b worker only wins in a sense that they are being exploited in a currency with higher value, and local labour loses a worker that could join a labour organization.

Especially the people in here calling it indentured servitude.

I mean, it’s basically as close to indentured servitude as you could get in 21 century America "a system where individuals contracted to work for a set period, typically in exchange for passage to a new country, room, board, and sometimes other benefits like land or tools. "

fine and doesnt seem to be harming wages or exploiting and enslaving foreign workers.

Eh, I would say the only thing stopping it from doing so on a much greater scale in that there is a cap on the how many H1b are made available…a cap which a lot of tech moguls are trying to dramatically elevate.

I think the problem you’re running into is that your definition of “low wage” isn’t in reference to their applied fields. I don’t think it’s right to assume that people are going to compare a pilot’s low wage to someone doing manual labor.

The point he is making is that corporations aren’t hiring people under h1b because there’s a lack of skilled labour. They’re hiring people under h1b because they help drive down labour costs, or they don’t want to absorb the cost of training new skilled labour.

If it were really because there was a lack of skilled labour, and demand was so high, then there shouldn’t be a gap in pay between H1b and local skilled labour. If we want the best and brightest from everywhere, why are we paying the best and brightest lower than the industry standard?

“Let’s build this “refugee shelter” in the middle of the everglade, far away from any ngo or logistics center, also…be sure to have really tall fences, guard posts, and don’t forget to order all that barbed wire.”

Were you born yesterday?

Also, government contractors have…contracts. If they were told to build something other than what they were contracted to build, the contract is no longer enforceable.

“Hey guys, do you think there’s a chance that this concentration camp we’re building in the middle of a swamp might be used for something nefarious?”