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I think you need to consider history if you think this is a new thing. People literally paid for indentured servants, even outside of the slave trade.

Importing cheap labor has been a constant throughout the countries history, look at camps of people building the railroads you’ll see lots of Chinese people etc.

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consumer451 5 days ago | parent [-]

But if we zoom out, there is an end to this. We run out of poor people to be migrants eventually, right? I don't just mean as the USA, or any country, but as the Earth.

How do we solve the issue of the end state, where all economies have reached our current level of advancement?

I assume we solve it, or we go extinct, and that would be an odd reason to do so after millions of years, wouldn't it?

	▲	Retric 5 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Countries are just arbitrary here. What happens long term is there’s massive selective pressure because children of people that reproduce in wealthy economies are the only people to be around in 200+ years. The USA as a whole has 1.7 births per woman which is really close to the ~2.1 needed. However that isn’t evenly distributed ethic Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander’s living in the US actually sit just above replacement rate. Give it 200 years and that may very well increase. Really 3 kids needs to be seen as normal long term because some people just aren’t going to have any.
	▲	pnutjam 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Why does less then replacement rate equal extinction? It just requires a reimagination of the economy it's not an extinction level threat. That's just scare mongering.