<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 12:26 PM William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>So should we keep immigrants out now because they are going to be dead weight later? </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large">All of us, not just illegal immigrant<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">s and</span> farm laborers, will become "dead weight" because it is only a matter of time before a machine can do your job, whatever it is, better than you can.</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large"> </span></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Another issue:  98 countries according to Google have birth rates below replacement.  Result:  fewer people working to support the retired and to pay off debts. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:large;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I submit that the insufficiency of wealth creation will not be a problem in the future because people will not be the only thing that can create wealth and pay off debts. Even today the world has never had more wealth, the problem is <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">that</span>never <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">in the history of the world </span>has that wealth been more unequally distributed. The richest 8 people in the world have more wealth than the entire poorest half of the entire human race, that's 3.8 billion people. Think of it, 8 people versus 3.8 </span><b style="font-size:large;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">BILLION</b><span style="font-size:large;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">.</span><span style="font-size:large;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> I just don't see how anyone can look at that statistic and not see trouble coming unless something radical changes mighty damn fast. And Trump's additional tax breaks for the wealthy is not the sort of change I'm talking about.</span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:large;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>J<span class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">ohn K Clark</font></span></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div>