[Oldexpat]

Swift and others know exactly what they were doing. Meatpacking jobs went from $18/hour to 8-10. They knew that their mainly spanish speaking workforce didn’t come out of thin air and take those low paying jobs.
Those jobs were good jobs for working men with families..they turned them into jobs that couldn’t support one person.

[org.whodat]

they turned them into jobs that couldn’t support one person

It does when you keep them in slave quarters twenty are thirty to a house.

[Reeses]

The government has stumbled on the solution only they haven’t realized it yet. Every year the DARPA Grand Challenge offers cash prizes to develop increasingly capable robotic vehicles. The first year nobody won, the second year 5 designs drove themselves 132 miles through an extreme obstacle course. The government got a huge amount of engineering work done for a bargain basement price.

We should extend this incredibly winning formula to farming, construction, meat packing, gardening, manufacturing, road construction. The result would be jobs that pay $40/hour servicing the robots, more income taxes paid and fewer social services used, less crime, less pollution, less turning America into Mexico.

Mexicans wages alone cannot fund the baby boomer generation's retirement. We're going to need significant new technologies to boost worker productivity without boosting school, healthcare, prison, and welfare spending.