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Labor efficiency is up, all The Powers That Be are drinking the Kool aid on automation and AI, it's still easy to outsource low-skill labor (with the possible exception of agriculture), and climate change is going to make it harder to support large, resource hungry populations.
Thus, I assume the plan (to the extent there's a plan) is to continue to automate or proletarianize white collar jobs while using immigration as a distraction and an excuse to build up the police state further. When there aren't enough immigrant workers to fill jobs, start pushing the whites back into lower skilled populations while they enjoy their robot utopia in the cities.
Given that the rich are idiots and automation is definitely not going to proceed as hoped, I'd imagine this plan is going to clash with reality and things are going to get messy.
this makes a lot of sense