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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
It's a worrying trend. As well as the people who have lived here for years, asylum seekers, EU migrants, economic migrants etc needing employment, we are also losing jobs abroard without them even setting foot in the UK. At least immigrants and their employers pay NI and tax.
On top of this automation isn't that far away where a huge amount of jobs will be lost.
How are we to pay for the NHS, the welfare state and other public services? We are letting foreign people into the country, letting jobs leave the country to foreign countries, still allowing many tax loopholes.
When automation takes hold there will be massive job losses, but how will the unemployed (of all nationalities) be looked after?
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I can't believe you posted that on an internet forum. Think of all the messenger-boys you've put out of work!
Your argument is based on the mistaken belief that there is a fixed amount of work to do. There isn't. As jobs are replaced by automation or off-shoring, the economy grows, and new and hgher-value jobs are created.
Despite all the automation and off-shoring that's already happened, UK employment is at an all-time high.