Automation + Immigration = White Identitarianism

The purpose of the Lying Press is to tell Americans why they are not allowed to resist their dispossession. Thus, just before Christmas, The New York Times contemptuously informed its readers that immigration and globalization are not the real threat to jobs — automation is. Therefore, according to labor economists quoted by NYT, we need “retraining programs, stronger unions, more public-sector jobs, a higher minimum wage, a bigger earned-income tax credit, and, for the next generation of workers, more college degrees.”¹

Otherwise, people might do something unacceptable — like start “blaming immigrants.”

Yet in the long term, the United States is heading towards financial disaster as entitlement programs and health care costs will push the debt to ruinous levels. More handouts and entitlements are hardly likely to solve the problem unless they are paid for with massive tax increases, which would stifle already languid economic growth. And the current state (and cost) of higher education hardly makes “more college degrees” a panacea.

Furthermore, declining unions and falling wages are not separate from the phenomenon of mass immigration. From the perspective of the Chamber of Commerce, the whole point of immigration is that it’s a politically correct form of union-busting, driving down the wages of both skilled and unskilled workers.

And the Left goes along with this because it dispossesses the hated European-Americans.

The same motivations are at play in Europe. In Germany, the vast majority of the traitor Merkel’s refugees are both unemployed and unemployable.² The costs are ruinous and there is no end to the migration in sight.

The so-called “anti-fascists” demanding more refugees are just the union-busting Pinkerton Detectives of today. The impact of their actions is to ensure the corporations they pretend to hate get the cheap workers they want.³

Still, Miller’s New York Times article brings up an important point — especially when it notes that while automation in the past created new jobs, “experts are beginning to worry that this time could be different.”⁴ We are coming to a point where, even absent mass immigration, vast swathes of the population will essentially be unemployable and entire industries will be stripped of workers.

Nearly half the jobs in Idaho will be automated in the next twenty years.⁵ The difficult but well-paying jobs in the oil industry are gone forever. Truck drivers will soon be under threat. Even industries like construction may no longer need workers.

This is not just something which will affect the West. Some countries, such as Japan, already seem to be adjusting to the new order. But others will face greater challenges.

In China, vast robot factories are being constructed for manufacturing, which have the potential to replace “millions” of workers.⁶ Almost 70% of jobs in India are threatened by automation, with an astonishing 77% in China slated to go. As the president of the World Bank observed, the traditional path of development “from increasing productivity of agriculture to light manufacturing and then to full-scale industrialization may not be possible for all developing countries.”⁷

In many countries, one of the most likely responses is a basic minimum income. Cyprus has something like it already.⁸ Finland is experimenting with it.⁹ Communities in Scotland are investigating trial programs for it.¹⁰ The Indian government is also taking steps to move towards such a program.¹¹

The Swiss recently voted down a proposal to implement a guaranteed basic income,¹² so there is nothing inevitable about this — in the short term. But in the long term, it seems like it will become a political necessity.

A major part of the Trump coalition were factory workers, coal miners and other working-class voters worried about their jobs being eliminated or outsourced. When almost everyone becomes a part of that threatened class, populism will increase even more.

And as the barista at Starbucks with a degree in English Literature and $80,000 in student loan debt can tell you, just sending more people to college isn’t going to do anything to help.

However, the implications go beyond populism. Ultimately, democracy itself will be called into question. A remarkably small number of people will be contributing in terms of technological progress or economic growth. In the post-work world, the vast majority of people will simply be consumers, passively absorbing increasingly degraded cultural products catering to their worst instincts. But because of universal suffrage, these masses will still have the political power to direct more public goods their way, even as the entire system becomes financially unsustainable. A major crisis is all but inevitable.

And adding to the instability: mass immigration. Even if we concede, for the sake of argument, that automation, not immigration, is the real threat to jobs, adding millions more Third Worlders onto Western infrastructure and social safety networks which are already buckling is practically a guarantee of permanent social conflict. It also increases the amount of competition for those few remaining jobs.

And because all men are not created equal, class distinctions will also largely be based on racial and cultural differences, and will be interpreted as such. After all, those liberal arts college graduates the Left loves so much don’t really know how to do anything else.

Which brings us to the final factor: identity. Francis Fukuyama posited in The End of History and the Last Man that liberal democracy may be the end of Hegelian History because it best satisfies the human desire for “recognition.” But the “Who? Whom?” conflicts of identity are likely to increase if people can no longer attain dignity through their profession.

“Alienation,” as Marx defined it, will be even worse, because individuals won’t even be contributing to the production of commodities. And added to this economic alienation: cultural alienation, as Western nations will be filled with an ever-increasing number of economically useless Third Worlders eager to claim public goods through the ballot box and sharing nothing in common with Europeans.

The only outlet First World people will have left: identitarian movements. They will reclaim their dignity and reassert their identity as human beings by going “back to blood” and seeking meaning through religious, cultural, and ethnic activism. What’s more, many of them will have nothing better to do and will have no fear of having their “basic right” of a minimum income stripped away.

We are already seeing this in Europe. For example, the almost-comically radical Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary worked full time as an organizer and agitator because he received welfare payments from the very government he was trying to overthrow.¹³ He’s only one of many.

History is about to restart. The end of work, mass immigration, mass unemployment, and the primal need for human recognition are likely to explode in a worldwide Age of Identity. It will confront every Western nation with unprecedented challenges. Preventing the ethnic and cultural conflicts which will rip our civilization apart is the defining issue of the next century.

But our leaders seem determined to just make matters worse. After all, if automation is inevitable, then why are they making the inevitable problems so much more volatile by continuing mass immigration?

If we are governed by people this stupid and/or malicious, perhaps “a little rebellion now and then” is a good thing after all.

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