Comments by "RexFx" (@RextheRebel) on "JRE Clips"
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This is the problem with Tim's argument. He is complaining that a select few will "have" to work while the majority are automated out of the workforce. But, we already have to work in order to survive because that is how capitalism works. You sell yourself and your labor to be paid a wage that you can use to purchase things you as an individual deem necessary. In a socialist economy work is the incentive, not wealth gain. Work becomes, as Marx stated, "life's prime want". We as individuals can decide for ourselves what we want to contribute and how and who who we wish to associate with to contribute. We focus on our own interests and abilities, hence the term, "each according to ones ability" and provide that to the world. For example, a chef makes food not to make money but to feed others and know they satisfied someone else with their effort. The same thing goes for the developer of a video game. They make the game for people to enjoy because they want the public to experience their creation. Thats the incentive. Not the perverted incentive of capital accumulation.
I agree automation need to be limited or even illegal in certain industries. Automation for large factories and manufacturing plants should be fully automated but because of this, the community should have access to everything produced by these robots instead of the capitalist reaping the profit. UBI is not the solution it is a stepping stone to the solution, which is, equal access to the means of production. UBI slightly imitates this by giving money to people in order to have access to certain things at a limited level.
Family, free association and achieving the best of your ability become the meaning of society and life instead of working for a wage or accumulating wealth.
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So i wrote a WHOLE LOT and for some reason it didn't send. Which infuriates me. So ill shorten it this time the best i can without muddling up the point.
I dont care about these immigrants like many others do, im sorry. But my priorities are on the American citizens who are falling behind and failing. Immigrants and illegal immigrants in particular get all the attention and all the sympathy we can offer while millions of Americans dont even have healthcare coverage or the millions more who are underinsured. 40,000 or die a year from not having health insurance or being afraid it will cost too much. Around 500,000 people suffer medical bankruptcies a year. Yet illegal immigrants are given healthcare from OUR tax dollars. American citizens are fighting tooth an nail for universal healthcare and here are these non citizens benefiting from that before we do! They go to university for FREE while our youth drown in debt from trying to get an education to advance in the world and innovate. Yet we instead bring over foreigners to take these high positions, to get the glory and the accolades. We give grants to immigrants to invest in businesses so they can be shown that the "American dream" exists and is alive, then they bring over their family to reap the benefits of this alongside them. I know a Chinese family who owns a restaurant who benefits from this. Why do entrepreneurial citizens not get the same respect? Why do we not invest in our communities, more specifically our lower income communities? Invest in infrastructure, small business and worker cooperatives? We can actually learn a thing or two from these immigrants who run these businesses essentially like a business coop similar to how Joey mentioned. They assist one another and work together instead of competing against one another. We should do the same, we should be invested in the same way. No more subsidies to large companies. Instead lets help subsidize small business and local markets.
What about the alarming homeless crisis in this country that is exacerbated by illegal immigrants, who interestingly enough aren't typically victims of homelessness...hmm, i wonder why? Over 560,000 homeless people survive in the US and that is a flawed conservative estimate that is based on poor data and abilities to track all the people living in the woods, in their cars (i can tell you there are so many people living in cars) and not in shelters or after a day long head count once or twice a year. Where are these homeless peoples economic opportunity huh? We care about immigrants economic opportunities and desire for a future but what about the homeless people who deserve that same right and even more so. Immigrants, especially illegal ones get priority while we ignore the hundreds of thousands of homeless people who are shamed and blamed for the situation they are in, all the while immigrants are just victims who need help and who came in or are in a bad spot. Well so are homeless people. Afraid of being arrested simply for existing. Wondering if a cop will tell them to leave where they are sleeping, be arrested for loitering or for illegally sleeping "in public". Worrying about when we will get our next meal. How they will pay for gas or how to ride the bus to get to work or to somewhere with a roof during the day, assuming they don't get told to leave. Whether on the streets or in a car they are forced to survive in the heat of summer, the cold of summer and the rain. Immigrants distract us from focusing on homelessness. They receive housing and own property while American citizens, often military vets, abused women and/or children and the disabled are forced to live on their own in the elements without a bed to sleep at night. It sickens me. Homelessness is almost never in the news and when it is it is only for literally five minutes and then we go back to bitching about a dumb tweet or about immigrants and their rights being violated. What about the rights of failing Americans? Why don't they get the attention? Why arent their needs payed attention to? Why does no one care about my needs, my mothers needs or the thousand of other victims in a similar situation desperate and alone, much like these immigrants, who seek a roof over their head and the opportunity to start a better life? Immigrants whether intentionally or not (and i dont believe it is intentional) make matters worse.
We deport too few and don't turn away enough. We have our asylum laws being exploited. People skip the line and refuse to show up at hearings. They run around the country undocumented to do whatever they like. They demand to be let it. But we cant let every person or family who shows up to the border to be let in. "Ok im here, let me in" is not a reasonable policy. We use xenophobia and racism as excuses not to look at the applications towards stricter border security and immigration control. Its all to shame people who have a different opinion other than the one liberals and libertarians use to appeal to sympathetic bleeding hearts and big corporations who exploit them. If a business hires an illegal immigrant they should be fined. They should be required to inform the government when one applies. We champion illegal crossing and allow them to get off scott free, with no repercussions for violating the law and the legal process. No respect for us or other immigrants coming in the right way so why should they get the same respect? They should pay fines for illegally staying here. The longer they stayed illegally, the larger the fine. If they have been here more than 3 years and haven't committed a crime like fraud (which is hard to believe) or a violent act then they can get a path to become a permanent resident, but not a citizen. They lost that privilege when they arrived here illegally to leech off the system whose benefits should go to the American people.
I care about low income people who are disproportionately affected by mass immigration and illegal immigration. About the workers impacted and the wages. I strive for Medicare for all, UBI, affordable education and other programs that support the well being of our citizens but illegal immigrants threaten that. Poor communities, black communities and even immigrant communities are negatively impacted by mass and illegal immigration. A form of gentrification called immigentrification occurs and pushes the people out of their own communities, displacing many. They contribute to rising housing costs and low wages and hurt those who are already most vulnerable. The immigration issue is a distraction from the real problems and the elite members of society know this. Republicans use this to their advantage to halt progress. Democrats use this to shame Republicans for these problems even though Republicans didnt cause them, they are just banking off them.
I am against mass immigration, i am against outsourcing, i am against corporations from exploiting this opportunity and the people. I am for the American people. I fight low income housing, community homes and public housing. I am for investing in our infrastructure, especially in our most forgotten and left behind communities. I am for supporting small business, worker cooperatives and local markets. I support a universal basic income and a Green New Deal that tackles the issue of the massive corporations contributing the most to negatively affecting our environment instead of being told to recycle or use paper straws... Although im a Lefty, i do not support what is essentially open border policy. Immigrants are more of a burden than a benefit nowadays. Look at Europe as an example. Look at our own country. We claim we were founded as a nation of immigrants, duh, every country basically is. But those immigrants, also known as colonizers are routinely shit on for coming here are wreaking havoc. Our ancestors came here illegally by the way... and we shame them for that but also use that as an excuse for their own agenda to defend these modern immigrants. We cant take all these people in. We have 12 million already here illegally and even though we cant possibly deport all of them we have to do something. Until we solve our problems, immigration is going to have to wait. The border and the immigrants attempting to come here are going to have to wait. Just like how my mom is waiting for healthcare to deal with her diabetes and arthritis. Or how im waiting for roof over my head and kitchen to cook my own food and make my own recipes to sell to the community and contribute to the economy. I want my economic opportunity. And until me and other Americans like me get the assistance WE NEED im sorry but my sympathy for these immigrants will be limited.
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So wait, suddenly I have endless opportunity because I'm healthy as a horse? Universal healthcare doesn't help me invest in MYSELF because I still don't have any fucking money! What the point in having healthcare if we don't have the money to help us assure our basic needs to begin with. I can go months without seeing a doctor. But every month I need money. Talking about all if this is redundant without a universal basic income. UBI gives people meaning by helping them find their own meaning. It allows them to invest in themselves. It helps them feed themselves and have the confidence to focus on what matters to them! Universal basic income would save me and my mom's life! It would save millions of lives! Homelessness won't end because they suddenly have healthcare they don't have to pay for. They need MONEY, money is what gives people hope and opportunity. I support Medicare for all 100% but it doesn't solve poverty, it doesn't solve homelessness, it doesn't solve income inequality. UBI or bust. Get on board or get off the way.
You know what gives people meaning? Art, music, philosophy, love, investing, writing, designing things. Working at McDonalds or for a sewage plant does not give meaning to people. UBI allows people to persue that meaning, whatever that meaning happens to be for that individual. And we need to respect that everyone can contribute in their own way. We need to evolve how we view the concept of work and contribution.
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