> Americans aren't going to tend the fields, either.
Why not? Europeans do it. They also have native born people working construction, etc. This idea that it’s somehow beneath Americans to do that work is all in our heads. One of our neighbors is a young, native born woman who works as a nanny. One of our neighbors is a native born American who cleans houses. You can have a self-contained, sustainable economy where native born people sell each other goods and services. It doesn’t need to be a pyramid scheme that relies on a continual flow of cheap immigrant labor.
And you’re right—the service jobs are being automated and outsourced. You know what won’t be automated and outsourced? Replacing roofs. Digging fiber trenches. Installing heat pumps. Remodeling bathrooms. If Americans won’t do that stuff, they don’t have jobs.