Is it Time to Start Boycotting Businesses that Hire Illegals?

a reply to: Alien Abduct

Same as you do for cob houses. Add them after the fact. Wiring and outlets doesn’t have to be inside walls. Conduit attached on the outside of the wall works just fine. HVAC too. Some pipes are part of the foundation. All can be hidden with false beams and false pillars too.

originally posted by: Alien Abduct
Hmm does it print the foundation, wiring, plumbing, roof, tile, carpet, cabinets, drywall, paint, windows, insulation, heating/air, ducts or fixtures? You know the other 95%😂

You move those goalposts. You asked for 'close to automating', this is the start. It's kind of funny that you cannot envision the rest of that coming down the pike.

Paying wages or paying for automation is going to impact all labor-intensive occupations moving forward and it's only going to get more pronounced.

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus

originally posted by: Alien Abduct
Hmm does it print the foundation, wiring, plumbing, roof, tile, carpet, cabinets, drywall, paint, windows, insulation, heating/air, ducts or fixtures? You know the other 95%😂

You move those goalposts. You asked for 'close to automating', this is the start. It's kind of funny that you cannot envision the rest of that coming down the pike.

Paying wages or paying for automation is going to impact all labor-intensive occupations moving forward and it's only going to get more pronounced.

Danged robots took mah job!

originally posted by: Ahabstar
a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

There is a chicken company in Arkansas, the one that sounds like a boxer than a college in Indiana, that has dormitories on their grounds with schools between the dorms and the factory floor that teach English. The whole campus is surrounded by a chainlink fence like a low grade prison.

I would say it is a pretty big business considering JB Hunt himself used to drive for them as a young truck driver. Who saved his pennies and bought a couple extra trucks and got some friends to drive them and kept doing so until he had more trucks with his name on them than anyone else.

I grew up in Pine Bluff Arkansas. Tyson employs most of the people that live there. I think you might be confusing Tyson with the arsenal.

a reply to: AScrubWhoDied

Do they have a bunch of Tyson semis at the arsenal?

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus

originally posted by: Alien Abduct
Hmm does it print the foundation, wiring, plumbing, roof, tile, carpet, cabinets, drywall, paint, windows, insulation, heating/air, ducts or fixtures? You know the other 95%😂

You move those goalposts. You asked for 'close to automating', this is the start. It's kind of funny that you cannot envision the rest of that coming down the pike.

Paying wages or paying for automation is going to impact all labor-intensive occupations moving forward and it's only going to get more pronounced.

Yeah it's coming but it isn't "close".

originally posted by: Alien Abduct
Yeah it's coming but it isn't "close".

It's definitely close, you just refuse to see it.

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus

originally posted by: Alien Abduct
Yeah it's coming but it isn't "close".

It's definitely close, you just refuse to see it.

Can I borrow your glasses?

originally posted by: Alien Abduct
Can I borrow your glasses?

The problem is in your ability to grasp the immediate future and ignoring the jumps in technology that are occurring.

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus

originally posted by: Alien Abduct
Can I borrow your glasses?

The problem is in your ability to grasp the immediate future and ignoring the jumps in technology that are occurring.

Let's focus on what's happening now. That is, there is way way too many illegal and even legal immigrants here drowning out the labor markets and sinking the pay scales!

But the government doesn't care because they are in the pockets of the wealthy who is enjoying all the cheap labor!

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus

originally posted by: Alien Abduct
Hmm does it print the foundation, wiring, plumbing, roof, tile, carpet, cabinets, drywall, paint, windows, insulation, heating/air, ducts or fixtures? You know the other 95%😂

You move those goalposts. You asked for 'close to automating', this is the start. It's kind of funny that you cannot envision the rest of that coming down the pike.

Paying wages or paying for automation is going to impact all labor-intensive occupations moving forward and it's only going to get more pronounced.

The tricky part will be designing automated technology that is just smart enough to simulate human work ethic but not smart enough to demand the same rights. Technology that demands rights is technology that will not hesitate to build their own leaders and society, effectively replacing ours.

*X files theme plays ominously*

originally posted by: Alien Abduct
But the government doesn't care because they are in the pockets of the wealthy who is enjoying all the cheap labor!

The end user is the one driving this because they like the convenience of abundance and cheap prices.

originally posted by: TzarChasm
The tricky part will be designing automated technology that is just smart enough to simulate human work ethic but not smart enough to demand the same rights. Technology that demands rights is technology that will not hesitate to build their own leaders and society, effectively replacing ours.

Looking forward to the robot Jimmy Hoffa.

originally posted by: Gothar
Awesome! Hope you don't like; flowers, leafy veggies, veggies of any kind (fresh, canned, pickled), prepared chicken, pork, beef, sweatshirts, sneakers, fastfood, hell all restaurant food, new home construction, house cleaning, gardeners. If you do like those things and can find them after getting rid of the "illegals", they will cost about 4-10 times their current cost.

This reminds me of the pro-Brexit argument that stopping EU migration would mean more and better paid jobs for British workers.

Instead, we have shortages in the care sector, crops rotting in the fields because there aren't enough pickers (supermarkets are importing the same stuff from the EU), and serious supply line problems as we are short on distribution centre workers and truckers. There are plenty of British unemployed people who could fill those vacancies, but who wants to pick crops for minimum wage? Who wants to spend thousands getting am HGV licence to work for £10 an hour?