Why do people say we need more immigrants? Robots are the future.

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37. The deals they are setting up are for a few years at a time and not immigration.

Immigrants are people who want to stay here permanently, many were originally H1B visa workers. they make a lot more money and likely are relatively high skill. In theory the L1 workers are also supposed to be high skilled but its hard to know how far it will go because the financial incentive will be high and it will be strange for high skill workers to be making less than many low skill workers. he services liiberalisation will basically be an intra company transfer. Due to liberalisation, countries can no longer keep jobs to themselves when they spend money - so, the kind of New Deal programs that existed in the 1930s will never be possible again. Instead they will be put up for international competitive bidding and the lowest bidder wins. What's illegal is for countries to reserve these contracts to their own companies only. Companies get to bid on jobs around the world. Whoever is the low bidder wins. Sure, it will drive a lot of automation in developed countries because with jobs like construction, even here, the only way we will win that contract without using subcontractors from low wage countries exclusively, is by automating it. On the other hand, business will be more profitable for the owners because of lower wage costs. I think this is a huge mistake but they have been working on it for 20 years. And its almost ready to go.