[Consultant32452]

We have flooded the STEM market with foreign workers. Sometimes we don't even give the foreign workers real jobs, we pretend they are "grad students" and pay them a pittance doing high level science at the universities. I generally like all the foreign folks I've worked with, but they are definitely suppressing the wages of natives to an insane degree.

[MangoToupe]

You could just as easily argue that we simply aren't creating enough jobs to make use of the labor force, which traditionally has been a very dangerous place for an empire—especially the core—to be in.

[coliveira]

The US is quickly becoming something else than the core of the global economy. The signs have been there already: advanced chips are done somewhere else, manufacturing in general is done in other places as well. What we see now is the biggest companies hiring in other countries like India and employing AI instead of workers. The US population is becoming less and less relevant.

[Consultant32452]

I agree the empire is in a very dangerous place because it has expanded the labor force more rapidly than it has expanded supply of jobs. This is an existential risk to the empire.