| 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.
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Not really, this is a fairly mainstream thing that is one of the core values of modern political parties, such as the Greens. Sustainability as opposed to irresponsible growth across finite landspace - even more finite given that the destruction of ecosystems reduces the world's ability to filter out pollutants. It's mostly the conservative minded right-wing neoliberals who don't like the idea, and they're the figurative heels dragging as society progresses. But job markets are scalable, it's not a flat rate. The reason for the drop in jobs is the same as the last 200 years of history (longer, actually, just accelerated since industrialization), automation reduces the need for routine labour-related jobs. The economy has progressed leftward to adjust for these changes by lowering the proportion of population required in the workplace (mostly, we don't work children and old people anymore) and the lowering of the work week (we're less than half of what we were a few generations ago); and we're able to do this by the increase of rights among the working class and social programs.
Technological progress is eliminating routine jobs, this is an inevitability, and societies that don't embrace the change because of conservative values of "I think future generations need to work as hard as mine" is going to be the downfall of those backward thinking nations. Also hypocritical since those "Future generations MUST work as hard as us" since they do not work as hard as their great grandfathers did. routine work shouldn't be missed when it's gone in sufficiently adjusted societies; if it is, then your country is to far to the right and needs to progress leftward in order to keep up with time's arrow.
I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.
