You guys seeing what I'm seeing

What’s the real strategy for U.S. immigration? Or is it just an unspoken policy of "whoever shows up, stays," like America is running the world’s longest open house? Europe’s not much better—both treat migrants less like human beings and more like economic commodities, as if people are just units of GDP to be slotted into low-wage jobs or used to pad out population charts. Japan, for all its rigidity, at least understands that a nation isn’t a shopping mall, and immigration isn’t just about filling vacancies. They protect social cohesion, economic balance, and cultural integrity, while the U.S. and Europe seem to think they can endlessly absorb people without consequence, like infrastructure, housing, and healthcare are infinite resources. Maybe if we just chant "diversity is our strength" loud enough, the housing crisis will solve itself.

But here’s where reality slams in—what happens when AI and automation wipe out the very jobs immigrants are being brought in to fill? When self-checkouts replace cashiers, when automated farming replaces manual labor, when AI drives the trucks and answers the customer service calls, what happens to the millions of people treated like plug-and-play commodities for an economy that no longer needs them? Are we ready to confront the fact that we’re importing labor for jobs that won’t exist in ten years? Or are we comfortable creating a permanent underclass, trapped in poverty and welfare dependency, just to keep the illusion of economic growth alive? Because that’s the road we’re on. The future economy doesn’t need an endless stream of human workers—it needs innovation and industries that break beyond the limits of Earth. Yet we act like immigration is a cure-all, not a system that, if unmanaged, will collapse under its own contradictions.

And here’s the part no one wants to say out loud: the only way out of this spiral isn’t more labor, it’s a leap into the future—into space. Industry, travel, mining—anything that expands our economic horizon beyond Earth’s crust. That’s the only real solution to national debt, economic stagnation, and automation-driven collapse. If we don’t start investing in industries that redefine what growth looks like, then we’re just rearranging commodities—people—on a sinking ship. Without that leap, we’ll watch debt, entitlement programs, and job displacement tear the U.S. and Europe apart. The hard truth is that migrants aren’t commodities, but they’re being treated as such. If we don’t stop thinking in those terms, and if we don’t bet on a bigger economic vision, then we’re not just failing immigrants—we’re failing ourselves.