It was a good video. I agree with almost every point he made.
I somewhat disagree that what defines an American isn't a set of ideas and beliefs. More specifically, those things are part of a culture, and immigrants can assimilate and become American, legally and culturally. Some of the best Americans are first generation Americans, and some of the worst people in the country have been here for several generations.
However... that doesn't mean the country will remain authentically American no matter who shows up (and in what numbers) and gets the legal stamp of approval from the State. The biggest issue we have now as a nation is that we don't all know what the country is, what we stand for, and we don't force newcomers to assimilate because we don't have a shared idea of what they should be assimilating into. (And because women think it would be "mean," probably. )
Multiculturalism is a sham, and everyone knows it. Little Italy and Chinatown are fine to exist, but everyone there should be learning English, integrating into broader local communities, and dropping any previous beliefs and cultural practices that conflict with American ideals. They should not just feel a social pressure and judgement to do these things. They should be afraid not to do it for fear of being deported.
I would say they should also be integrating into their broader local communities... but the internet and the many deaths of churches have destroyed feelings and ideas of local community. It's one of the biggest problems we have in the modern world, and only a technological collapse, a huge disaster, or a seriously powerful social fad will accomplish anything like bringing it back. But that doesn't mean new immigrants shouldn't be held to an even higher standard than "native" Americans in that regard, because they want to be here, and we do not need them here.
And the rates of legal immigration are a problem, too. Illegals are all scum, and most people understand that. But too many legal immigrants in too short a time will be just as damaging. Look at Europe. Look at Canada.
We have to get rid of birthright citizenship. We have to.
I'm re-listening to the video, and have a few more comments.
Some people
do work much longer than 40 hours a week. They do this not as a sustained lifestyle but because they're building towards a goal, sometimes in a bad situation.
The Chinese workers (the ones actually making their own choices) who work in factories with dormitories and suicide nets are doing it for a reason. They want to get ahead in life instead of living as subsistence farmers (like most of the population of China). They're also living in a developing nation where labor is plentiful and, thus, cheap. The work can be dangerous and demoralizing, and the wages are low relative to what developed nations expect. But the work also gives them a chance to build something for the future, something better than what they would otherwise have. They live in a different market than ours. This is the reality of life for many, many people in developing nations.
America has largely moved passed this stage of development. Our wealth has brought us to a higher standard of living and given us less need to overwork our fingers to the bone. We can worry less about the threats of gnawing privation and destitution. We have financial problems too, of course, but we don't have as many as people from developing countries. We do not have to worry quite as often about the need to earn
now to make sure our children have better lives. Our ancestors did a lot of that in building the country into what it is now.
None of the above is good or bad. It's all a description of the observed facts of the world.
People from a developed market can benefit by business dealing with other, less-developed markets. This is a core and crucial part of how Westerners afford so much of what we have in the modern world. We get things made more cheaply by people happy to do the work for less. Then we can afford those things. Everyone wins. This is basic economics.
The problem with the H1B visa thing is not that this basic economic principle is being applied and exploited by American companies, all of whom are competing against other companies that
will do that. The problem is that we don't have an actual job market meritocracy in place in our own country. You have illegal, DEI-fueled hiring discrimination against white men that crazy women simultaneously say they're happy about while also denying is happening. You also have businesses playing legal games
pretending to consider American workers while outright tossing their resumes in the trash in favor of pre-determined Pajeet code-shitters. If this were happening overseas, it would just be a fact that coding doesn't get done anymore in the U.S. in much the same way iPhones aren't built here. But it's being done in our faces while the companies lie about it.
So it's simply a fact that some jobs have become too expensive to do in America, and the parts of that truth that aren't related to market differences are due to overregulation. But the
domestic job market does
not need to import people to do work they could do remotely, and, in any case, Americans do not care about saving even more money if it means losing our culture and our country. That's the personal limit of savingsmaxxing for Americans,or at least for this small-L libertarian. The Americans who are here right now are absolutely more important than "dreamers."
Also, we do not need Pajeet anchor babies being crapped out as American citizens by H1B visa holders. Fuck that. We don't want to become like Canada. Outsourcing jobs is rough enough on our population without the population growing via illegal's kids. That just makes the problem worse.
