"Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message
news:BE7CF711.10066%eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp...
> in article d3672t$2jk8$1@nwall1.odn.ne.jp, bitter anko Takada at
> anko@eater.com wrote on 4/9/05 12:13 AM:
>
> >
> > "Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message
> > news:BE7AA9C5.FD60%eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp...
> >> in article 1112830250.703345.68870@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, TXZZ
at
> >> superoutland@aol.com wrote on 4/7/05 8:30 AM:
> >>
> >>> The money these robots are consuming should be going to paying
> >>> employees and lowering prices
> >>
> >> The problem is that paying employees to do the same thing costs more,
so
> >> prices would escalate, not decrease. Also, Japan and much of the
developed
> >> world is having a problem finding qualified workers. That is why most
> >> developed countries are loosening their immigration laws.
> >>
> >> One of the reasons that America has been so successful is that they
have a
> >> long history of adsorbing immigrants into the marketplace, immigrants
that
> >> become new citizens.
> >
> > In other words, that could be said as America has been exploiting from
> > immigrants as cheap labors, by fooling them as if they could get the
> > fictitious, so-called "American dream" or something.
>
> No, the Japanese exploited Koreans as cheap labor during WWII. In America,
> people came to America for the "American dream" and found it. Not everyone
> became wealthy, but overall the lives of the immigrants was improved over
> what they left.

Illegal immigrants from Mexico are working in the farms that pay only some
$2 an hour. If America misses them, it's going to be a serious issue of high
labor costs. American economy is supported by those illegal immigrants
actually.