buying consumer crap generally requires consumer income. the us will quickly become a backwater global export destination for anything other than 1% luxury items because the poors will simply be too poor to matter wrt global demand.
assuming you mean the h-1b visa, it does not appear to. I would, however, be very cautious if you are not a us citizen - in this farce of a timeline, trumps $5M "gold card" is likely to be the only non-citizen immigration status soon enough.
deep in his spider hole somewhere, that nazi stephen miller must be having mini orgasms right now.
isnt chaos the point, though? trump is very quick to declare "emergencies". even before the shit hits the fan, the public will be begging for the boot.
I have no idea what the us military would do or how an insurgent resistance would fare, but it really does seem that chaos is part and parcel of whatever the hell this thing is.
still hopeful that, if trumps idiocy does not directly blow us all to hell, an economic downturn may give us another COVID style environmental breather. silver linings and all that.
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I got ya. you may be surprised to learn that, in the us, declining geographic mobility is very much a part of the new feudalism.
by all metrics I can think of, the us is becoming more and more a feudal estate with lords and peasants.