Hi John
It is the rare and happy instance where one problem solves another problem, maybe like how EQ can fix magnitude and phase in a minimum phase problem.
I think to a degree this could be one of those solutions.
I am reminded of a fellow my Brother used to work with.
This guy was a Korean war Vet and while serving after the war met a nice Korean lady and they eventually married. She bugged him about having her family come to America but he poo poo’d it for years citing “all the problems” in America.
After about 15 years, she won him over, popped for the airfare and they arranged to have his in-laws come.
They stayed at his house for three months and learned English, they had gotten jobs in fast food and laundry but after three months they had enough to rent a small apartment near by.
After six months, they arranged to have there 4 other kids come too.
Now, they all had jobs, all lived in one apartment for another few months.
Within a year they had bought a house and a business and the last time my bro heard, they had 14 businesses, each had there own houses and drove nice cars.
The fellow my brother worked with liked to tell this story because it shows how strongly personal perspective governs what each person see’s. His point was that he saw nothing but problems and difficulties; they on the other hand, saw the land of opportunity and promise. All it took was the opportunity, a lot of hard work and they made the American dream come true in the best sense.
I think one aspect that makes the illegal situation different is that while many of them do think of America as “the land of opportunity” it is not the same way and often don’t think of it as there home.
On the other hand sending money back home is a huge business and the major thrust of a significant number of them so it is a different mindset than the people in the story.
It is still the land of opportunity, but a different view of what that opportunity is.
Worth considering too is that the illegal’s usually are doing the hardest or most undesirable jobs of all and often for a lot less than normal.
Too often, employers say that they have to hire these folks because Americans (with a different perspective) simply won’t do it or might but for a lot more pay.
Clearly many businesses would fold “if” they had to pay Americans to do the work, too many jobs are simply too icky in the popular perspective to consider.
I am reminded of perspective again and how much that governs how a situation is interpreted.
In my case, my family has friends with a farm in Northern Wisconsin.
A few years ago the fellow got sick and we went up to help out on the farm.
My kids had spent a couple weeks each summer at “horse camp” there so they were keen to go too, even though it meant “chores” (I should remind them they had that view once).
At first, I found mucking out the 14 Stalls each morning to be pretty bad.
To be clear, this is literally shoveling it up into a spreader, scraping it out and you needed to “dedicate” a pair of shoes to it if you know what I mean.
I kind of liked feeding and watering the animals right away because you could really tell the horses and the big stupid bull were appreciative, everybody’s happy when you have food in your hand. Funny thing, after a week or so, I started thinking that this is actually pretty cool, I never felt better or healthier. When it was time to go home, I actually felt bad about leaving all that..
My child hood experiences with horses that I recall were pretty much limited a number of medium and high speed rides on semi-tame farm variety (and my interest was motorcycles) so while exciting, I wasn’t interested in something with that little control.
But the thing is now; “someday when I grow up”, I am going to have a couple horses and maybe a couple goats. Funny thing how much ones perspective can change.
Anyway any idea that sounds promising should be investigated until a “show stopper” is found or not found.
Hopefully I was able to “pour the beer with a lot less foam” this time.
Best,
Tom Danley
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