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7/9/2025, 6:36:22 PM
I'll tell you what's actually going on.
== There is a supply and demand for human genes. ==
Over time because of technology, the genes that code for a low skill worker are less in demand. A single factory owner can do the labor of 10,000 workers. In general, wealth flows up the bell curve, so those with intelligence receive higher and higher compensation while low skill workers receive less. This trend is exacerbated because the supply of low-skill work is increased by immigration and free trade.
Technically labor saving technologies reduce the price of everything, which should offset the lower wages. Sure your wage was cut, but the price of everything was cut, so what's the issue?
The issue is these big fixed-cost items which cannot be mass produced. For example, the number of medical doctors scales linearly with population size. Same with any service, like education. Housing of course is relatively fixed, we aren't getting more land.
So in these 3 big areas
-- medical
-- housing
-- education
The price does NOT come down for everyone. The poor are force into a bidding war against the rich, and come up short. These are the big-ticket it that are killing EVERYONE.
Immigrants get those 3 specific things subsidized, so they are entirely removed from this trend. They get the benefits of lower prices and can live a successful, if menial life.
However people in white rural america are not getting any subsidy. They are getting hit with the full-brunt of a $100,000 education bill, a $50,000 hospital bill, an $800,000 house....etc. And they cannot make it work.
== There is a supply and demand for human genes. ==
Over time because of technology, the genes that code for a low skill worker are less in demand. A single factory owner can do the labor of 10,000 workers. In general, wealth flows up the bell curve, so those with intelligence receive higher and higher compensation while low skill workers receive less. This trend is exacerbated because the supply of low-skill work is increased by immigration and free trade.
Technically labor saving technologies reduce the price of everything, which should offset the lower wages. Sure your wage was cut, but the price of everything was cut, so what's the issue?
The issue is these big fixed-cost items which cannot be mass produced. For example, the number of medical doctors scales linearly with population size. Same with any service, like education. Housing of course is relatively fixed, we aren't getting more land.
So in these 3 big areas
-- medical
-- housing
-- education
The price does NOT come down for everyone. The poor are force into a bidding war against the rich, and come up short. These are the big-ticket it that are killing EVERYONE.
Immigrants get those 3 specific things subsidized, so they are entirely removed from this trend. They get the benefits of lower prices and can live a successful, if menial life.
However people in white rural america are not getting any subsidy. They are getting hit with the full-brunt of a $100,000 education bill, a $50,000 hospital bill, an $800,000 house....etc. And they cannot make it work.
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