Is the US really doomed based on current demographics?

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[–]DragonerneJesus is white 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

If a $1 salary can buy everything, why are there still extremely poor people living in third world countries?

What the fucking what!? Seriously, wtf dude. Do you see robots everywhere!? 1 dollars cant buy shit today. You seriously have no concept of money or how an economy works. I suggest taking some 101 macro economy course, because this is simply astonishing. Read my comments until they make sense in your head or take a macro economics course. You clearly don't understand the most basic concepts.

[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The people who make $6,000 are the ones with valuable skills. They're not the ones going to make a $1 in the future which by all means, is completely worthless, when everyone else at the top makes a lot more.

Do you see robots everywhere!?

Not yet, but you don't need a robot to point out a wealth gap exists. And automation wiping out the bottom rung jobs of society wont actually make these people richer. Like I said, I expect those with degrees and wealthy connections to be able to move anywhere upwards in society. The ones who don't, you can look at the neighborhoods of Brazil as an example of where these people are headed.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/nov/29/sao-paulo-injustice-tuca-vieira-inequality-photograph-paraisopolis

Remember, the initial discussion was about how immigration would decrease. A million people moving to another country when their labor is worth the exact same as where they originally came from, puts a nail in that coffin. Or you don't transfer one group of slum people to live in another slum.