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sethnintendo on 14 June 2020
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Ka-pi96 said:
Snoopy said:
This opinion is unpopular with a lot of people I've talked to, but I don't care. There are over 320 million people living in the United States and the rate of growth is exponential. There is not enough jobs, money or resources to go around especially when automation is ramping up and killing the need for humans. Truck Drivers, Teachers, Retail, Restaurants / Fast food, warehouses, farming, some IT jobs (especially because of cloud services), and I can go on all day. I hate saying this opinion especially because I know a lot of people seek to be here in the United States, but this can't sustain for very long. Also, this should apply to the world, but since I live in the United States, I can only focus on our country.
 
I might be wrong and someone can point it out. Most of this is just me speaking from the top of my head.

Definitely not. Here in Japan how to stop the ageing and decling population is a big political issue. People know it would be a bad thing and something needs to be done to keep the country ticking over mostly as is (or better).

Plus, more jobs are easy to make. Here we have elevator attendants. Is pushing the elevator buttons and announcing which floor the elevator has stopped on a needed job? No, it's absolutely stupid that such a thing exists (and if what I've seen on TV/movies is true you have petrol station attendants in America already, so y'all are clearly already willing to pay people for completely unnecessary jobs). Yet somebody is still paid to do it. I'm sure people could think of much more worthwhile things to employ people for if it were needed.

Gas station attendants only exist in NJ (and apparently Oregon) where state law requires attendant to pump gas.  There might be a few full service stations left here and there but for most part it is self pump.  Only time I saw one in real life is when I rolled up to station in my college town and got out to pump gas when a guy came out and was like these are full service pumps you gotta back up to self serve.  I looked at him dumbfounded because never been to one before and was like okay I'll back up because think they charged extra for service.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filling_station_attendant

Last edited by sethnintendo - on 14 June 2020