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You seem to be unaware that most people expect 40%+ of all our jobs to disappear to automation in the next 2 decades. So no...we don't need more people.
And, what kind of people would be "producing for profit"? Not the kind you are hoping to get from that endeavor.
Exactly. And, I believe the welfare system is already conducting that social experiment. As for tax breaks -- not nearly as profitable as the monthly check and food stamps.
I don't buy a shortage of people to begin with. Gosh, the illegals are putting out anchor babies faster than our state can finance them! We already have a lot of people that are unemployed and graduating more all the time from high school, trade school, junior college and with Bachelor's and Master's degrees and many cannot find employment.
It would be a very bad idea to provide financial incentives for people to have children since, in essence, that is what the welfare system does. One look at people having children for profit would help one understand why this is a very bad idea.
A lot of the shortages in different fields really don't exist. There are places that people don't want to move to, salaries that they can't live on, working conditions they can't deal with so they chose some other job, maybe not in their field but where they want to be.
I do not see a labor shortage in the future. Even the farm labor is becoming highly mechanized as are production jobs of all types. We are doing more and more with less people working to do it every day.
And, what kind of people would be "producing for profit"? Not the kind you are hoping to get from that endeavor.
^^^^ This
Just like the so called tech worker shortage, this is a lie too. Many tech workers (the very good ones) are doing freelance works.
With the elderly population increasing and there will be shortage of people working at the labor force for many skilled jobs in the future without increasing immigration from 3rd world countries of which many have crappy education and barely speak English, shouldn't the government be responsible for subsidizing child care, pay for education including colleges, free school lunch, and child allowance like they do in Sweden, Finland, and other countries?!
Government should encourage and pay for people having kids if you want to sustain and keep the country alive in the future, otherwise it will collapse!
Where will the money come from? Well cut foreign aid and raise taxes on the rich, and cut military aid = problem solved.
Why do you think the long range government planners are not concerned with stopping or slowing down immigration? They know we'll need them to keep our population up.
Why do you think the long range government planners are not concerned with stopping or slowing down immigration? They know we'll need them to keep our population up.
Pure nonsense! We don't need any more population growth and our government is turning a blind eye to illegal immigration only because their corporate masters demand cheap labor. It's not because we have a shortage of qualified American workers. Nor will we in the future either.
We need fewer workers, not more. And that situation will get worse as technology advances. But as for the government giving incentives for kids now, the "incentives" are a joke and phase out after 2 kids. The "incentive" I get for my kids doesn't pay for 2 months of daycare.
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