I’d imagine it’ll also spur the drive to automate some functions they currently rely on the illegals to do.

Which leads to a somewhat fascinating phenomenon. You’d think they’d be inclined to have been automating from day 1. But the desire to do so eventually stagnates in a “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it” type of mentality. Which is a curious phenomenon that regularly crops up in civilizations.

That seemingly flys in the face of the idea of constant progress that seemingly underpins quite a bit of modern Western Philosophy.