I've seen this sentiment repeated on X quite a bit following the election.
What Jason is missing is that most of the people who voted for Trump are not the ones who can afford to hire people to do all that for them. It's mostly the high-income blues who can do that.
Then there is this data.
You'll need to click on that one. I left it medium-sized to maintain the aesthetics of the blog, such as they are.
At any rate, once more, it's the working class who are being replaced by the migrants, not the high-income blues. Further, it's working-class, low-skilled men with poor educational skills who suffer the most. Wherever you see a lot of illegals working, you can bet the language on the job site is Spanish.
It's no wonder Trump won that demographic going away.
What is a wonder is that the college-educated geniuses can't see it.
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So, looking at Table 2 there, I will note that I've had direct experience doing a lot of those jobs at one time or another, particularly the ones that relate to construction, agriculture, earthmoving, mining, and metalworking. I think I also have a pretty good idea what most of the rest of them are like. And what they have in common, is that they are all hard work for long hours in often deeply unpleasant conditions, the pay is crap, and a lot of them are either immediately dangerous, or wreck your body over time. Those aren't just working-class jobs, they are the bottom-of-the-barrel working class jobs. The only US citizens who are going to be willing to do that kind of work, are the ones who really, truly, honest-to-God can't do anything else.
And if you eliminate the immigrants who do those jobs now, the response is not going to be to increase pay to convince more US citizens to do those jobs. The response is going to be to push up the schedule for finding ways to automate them. Which, in itself, may well be a good thing. Lord knows there is probably nobody on this planet who is going to begrudge losing their job shoveling manure to an automated barn-cleaner, or their ditch-digging job to an AI backhoe, or their chicken-gutting job to a fully robotic chicken plucker and processor.
I do agree that Jason Cox's X[1] is kind of out-of-touch. I sometimes hire people to do construction work that I don't have the time or materials for, but we do all of our own yardwork, cleaning, gardening, and routine repairs around the house. And this seems to be typical, I don't actually know anyone who hires people to do anything other than really specialized tasks, or really big jobs.
[1] Now that it isn't "twitter" anymore, what are postings on X called these days? They aren't still "tweets", are they?
Goodness! I already do all those things myself. Hell! I even built most of my house with my own hands.
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