Illegal immigrants do not help the job market, I can tell you that.

Why would ANY company hire Americans when they can hire people who:

• Work as long as they want

• Work as many days a week as they want

• Can be fired in a second, because they weren't true employees anyway

• They don't have to give any type of leave to

• If they have an accident, nothing can be proven, so the company can't be held accountable

That's a company's dream employee there.

A fine that costs less than you made out of it isn't a fine, it's a tax.

I don't even know this companies name yet alone anything else.

In construction, their new labor scrutiny may be more related to the contracts they can acquire and what their obligations are under them. I grew up working in an industry that was built on undocumented labor. There simply wouldn't have been sufficient amounts of native labor available willing to work unskilled agricultural to allow the industry to boom as it did in that area in the last century. It's not even that there was a preference for undicumented - anyone could walk in and get a job, paid by the lb. I had a friend who did it as a summer job. But most people only did it for a few days before washing out. Because it sucked and basic English skills can get you a still-physical job that sucks marginally less. You certainly wouldn't move there to do it. Unless you're moving from a place with fucking nothing.

And employers worried little about fines. That was anticipated potential cost of doing business. The one I worked books for scrupulously withheld and paid taxes on these laborers, though. Because the penalties for skipping that would be business ending. So I agree it's more tax than not. But also know that the absence of those laborers would simply destroy the local economy. The industry would no longer be workable, the product no longer competitive, and all supporting businesses left to struggle with the economic hole. And this is the class of labor we want to reduce even legal immigration of. So what's the answer?

Other countries are spending huge amounts nationally on research and tech. While we talk about bringing coal back. Yeah, the authors of this grand strategy need to work thoughtfully to distract the masses and offer us easily identified and intellectually graspable targets, else who will we aim for in our anger as this national investment strategy begins to have its predictable consequences?

A third party won't offer a solution to our oligarchy. There's no competing with the cash and messaging of their hegemony without having them on board. It will only result in the lopsided advantage of one or the other of our existing parties, and which one would be decided by which side of a handful single-issue voter topics that 3rd party decides to land on.

Well something needs to be done with them.

The non contributors.

Progress is the most humane thing to do and progress cant be made with dead weight.

Yes, it was embarrassing to see them so useless.

No, because they were useless and denied an honorable death.

Why not both?

Nope

Yes. We should teach people it is to be a burden on society and that they can have honor in death by not being a burden.

Do your part. Contribute. Make the world better. Die when your use has ended.

How will Trump get reelected if we eliminate his base?

We want to get him reelected?

What if people don't have a realistic opportunity to contribute?

No loss.

This holiday season we aren't doing Christmas presents. The only presents we bought were for charity. Now most people might think we're being the Grinch for Christmas but that's not the case, we are simply refusing to participate in one of the biggest consumer scams of the year. The holiday season should be about family and friendship not capitalism. Happy holidays everyone!

I thought about making gifts as well I just didn't get my 3D printer ready in time. I guess it will be my goal for next year.

Q: Do they exploit racial tensions in order to exploit the poor and working class?

A: Always and forever.

The real scary thing about AI/Automation is up until now every oppressive order throughout history on some level still needed human beings as the primary substance. You know to grow food, fight wars, craftspeople, skilled builders, wtvr.

Now we're in this bizzare situation where even people are no longer necessary. Wars without warriors where drones just execute people skynet style. Machines doing all the manufacturing, cars driving themselves. Soon They won't even need us as consumers!

They're all betting on some sort of trans-humanist nightmare where they all live immortal lives on some sort of Elysium style future. They wish to become like gods.

Get ourselves a Butlerian Jihad.

"The target of the Jihad was a machine-attitude as much as the machines," Leto said. "Humans had set those machines to usurp our sense of beauty, our necessary selfdom out of which we make living judgments. Naturally, the machines were destroyed."

We need to meditate and destroy the machine within. All the automatic, robotic, slave to numbers type thinking that keeps our spirit jailed. But stopping the machines is not enough, we have to cultivate ourselves and believe our own abilities to the max in order to compensate for the absence of the mass convenience of the mechanized nightmare.