toobfreak
Tungsten/Glass Member
I heard this on the news and kinda figured it had some truth to it, but now I know.
What I heard on the news was that in the past couple of years, over 1 million Americans have been displaced out of the workforce to be replaced by foreigners! Now, from time to time, I take a taxi (mostly Uber and Lyft) and since last summer, I was surprised by the number of times that some foreigner would pick me up who spoke little or no english. One of them told me not to even talk because he spent the whole time in a conversation on his Bluetooth set talking to someone in a foreign language I could not even guess what it was! But it was obviously NOT European and was some sort of eastern/middle eastern language.
So today I get picked up and it was a very nice 30 year old black kid from North Carolina who had just moved here--- we had a very nice conversation about a number of things (he had not heard a thing about that trucker's strike on the Canadian/American bridge during Covid), and we got on the subject of this thread talking about employment/unemployment, and he confirmed it! He said that he knew about that, had seen Americans unable to find jobs, and had personally seen a lot of regular American citizens get fired only to be replaced by foreigners.
So just now, I get picked up to bring me back home and when I get in the car and start talking to the kid, right off he tells me: "I do not speak English!" Then he proceeds to put music on softly, and as I listen to it sitting in a traffic jam, I realize that the singer in the band is singing in a foreign language! And as before, not in any language that I could identify.
I did not find the thread I wanted to back this up, but these kind of parallel:
www.latimes.com
www.aljazeera.com
What I heard on the news was that in the past couple of years, over 1 million Americans have been displaced out of the workforce to be replaced by foreigners! Now, from time to time, I take a taxi (mostly Uber and Lyft) and since last summer, I was surprised by the number of times that some foreigner would pick me up who spoke little or no english. One of them told me not to even talk because he spent the whole time in a conversation on his Bluetooth set talking to someone in a foreign language I could not even guess what it was! But it was obviously NOT European and was some sort of eastern/middle eastern language.
So today I get picked up and it was a very nice 30 year old black kid from North Carolina who had just moved here--- we had a very nice conversation about a number of things (he had not heard a thing about that trucker's strike on the Canadian/American bridge during Covid), and we got on the subject of this thread talking about employment/unemployment, and he confirmed it! He said that he knew about that, had seen Americans unable to find jobs, and had personally seen a lot of regular American citizens get fired only to be replaced by foreigners.
So just now, I get picked up to bring me back home and when I get in the car and start talking to the kid, right off he tells me: "I do not speak English!" Then he proceeds to put music on softly, and as I listen to it sitting in a traffic jam, I realize that the singer in the band is singing in a foreign language! And as before, not in any language that I could identify.
I did not find the thread I wanted to back this up, but these kind of parallel:
Millions of U.S. workers are still missing as the pandemic recedes. Where did they go?
Millions of workers are still missing from the labor force three years after COVID-19 surfaced. Economists are trying to determine where they went.
www.latimes.com
Where have all the US workers gone? Will they come back?
The number of Americans either working or looking for a job is still down from pre-pandemic levels.
