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Re:Why I'm not worried about AI job loss by flanked-evergl on Friday February 13, 2026 @06:47PM (#47009463)
You know. I have worked for almost two decades now, I can't afford to buy an apartment. People who have been useless their entire lives are getting government loans that they then pay off with welfare they get because they are doing nothing.

I'm not the ownership class, this is unfair. You are the ownership class. People with money or who grew up with money are overwhelmingly left leaning.

Re:Why I'm not worried about AI job loss by atlintots on Friday February 13, 2026 @07:07PM (#47009643)
You can't afford an apartment because the ownership class is working very hard to keep housing prices high while paying you as little as possible for the two decades you have been working. Not because some disabled person elsewhere is struggling to get by on government loans and welfare.
Re:Why I'm not worried about AI job loss by socalgal2 on Saturday February 14, 2026 @01:28AM (#47012148)
The ownership class is doing no such thing. Zoning, regulation, nimby-ism are what keep prices high.
Re:Why I'm not worried about AI job loss by matwood on Saturday February 14, 2026 @02:11AM (#47012368)
> Zoning, regulation, nimby-ism

And who exactly do you think controls these items?

Re:Why I'm not worried about AI job loss by flanked-evergl on Saturday February 14, 2026 @03:09AM (#47012661)
Overwhelmingly leftist politicians elected by leftist voters.
Re:Why I'm not worried about AI job loss by allannienhuis on Saturday February 14, 2026 @11:26AM (#47015779)
who do you think is responsible for all of those things, if not the ownership class?
Re:Why I'm not worried about AI job loss by flanked-evergl on Saturday February 14, 2026 @01:54AM (#47012280)
The people keeping housing prices high are the leftist that push regulations that make it impossible to build while importing immigrants who disproportionately use welfare and get starter loans which they then use to push up housing prices without contributing anything to the economy. If this is the "ownership class" I guess stop voting for leftist. But nobody does, they just keep doing it, and housing becomes even more unaffordable.

The right wing here are the only people where I live with an actual viable plan for helping working people, even low class working people. The left makes deliberate choices that everyone knows will make things worse for lower class working people.

Re:Why I'm not worried about AI job loss by matwood on Saturday February 14, 2026 @02:19AM (#47012411)
This sounds like a Fox News fever dream.

Even if we assume there are tons of jobless immigrants being ‘imported’ they would be renters, not buyers.

Generally, house pricing is primarily a supply problem. Removing immigrants will make this worse given that they are 30%+ of the construction workforce.

Re:Why I'm not worried about AI job loss by flanked-evergl on Saturday February 14, 2026 @03:06AM (#47012645)
75% of welfare is going to immigrants, they get much easier access to government zero deposit loans even while not working, and then they pay off those loans with welfare. Sorry no fox news, just facts.

Immigrants are also overwhelming much more of a burden to society and the state, they are over represented in crime sadistically and take much more from the state that they contribute.

Suggesting that we would have no construction if we did not import criminal tax leeches seems like an evidence free statement.

Re:Why I'm not worried about AI job loss by suzzer99 on Saturday February 14, 2026 @01:50PM (#47017170)
> 75% of welfare is going to immigrants

This is complete nonsense. Immigrants use less social services than the average American. Here's the not remotely liberal Cato institute: https://www.cato.org/blog/immigrants-still-use-much-less-wel...

"There is a persistent myth that the United States lacks an extensive welfare state, despite all the evidence to the contrary. One look at this brief will disabuse you of any such belief. Total spending on means-tested welfare and entitlement programs climbed to about $3.4 trillion in 2023. About $823 billion went to means-tested programs such as Medicaid, SNAP, SSI, TANF, and refundable tax credits, while approximately $2.3 trillion was spent on old-age entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare.

Native-born Americans use an average of $7,134 in old age entitlements and $3,638 in means-tested benefits in 2023. By comparison, immigrants used $4,864 in old age entitlements and $3,370 in means-tested benefits. If native-born Americans had consumed the same per capita dollar amount of means-tested welfare and entitlement benefits as all immigrants, the total expenditures on these programs would have been about $715 billion less in 2023. That’s a tremendous savings, even for the federal government, considering it is approximately 42 percent of the federal budget deficit in 2023. We are tempted to suggest that native-born Americans should start assimilating toward immigrant levels of welfare and entitlement consumption.

Across nearly all major welfare and entitlement programs, immigrants consume less per capita than native-born Americans, but not uniformly so. They use much less Social Security and Medicare, but only slightly less Medicaid. Immigrants also use SNAP, SSI, and TANF at lower rates and lower dollar amounts per person, but those programs are relatively small compared to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Immigrants receive more per capita through the relatively small Earned Income Tax Credit and the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program. For the latter, immigrants use $3 more per year on a per capita basis than native-born Americans. Immigrants are less likely than native-born Americans to use any welfare program and, when they do, use fewer of them for a shorter period. The typical lifetime abuser of welfare was born in this country."

Re:Why I'm not worried about AI job loss by zrail on Friday February 13, 2026 @07:02PM (#47009596)
(Citation needed)
Re:Why I'm not worried about AI job loss by happens on Saturday February 14, 2026 @06:47AM (#47013777)
The useless people you are talking about _are_ the ownership class. They haven't worked a day in their life like you have, they are getting all the loans they want, and they are paying them off with welfare (tax cuts and loopholes).