Curtis Yarvin:
— Sense Receptor (@SenseReceptor) March 7, 2026
"Migration is... a little taste of the future. Because when you're importing basically slave labor, you're treating them like Optimus robots... You don't have a social connection to your Optimus robot... [or] to your Uber driver, Muhammad from Oman."
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Curtis Yarvin: "Migration is... a little taste of the future. Because when you're importing basically slave labor, you're treating them like Optimus robots... You don't have a social connection to your Optimus robot... [or] to your Uber driver, Muhammad from Oman." This clip of Yarvin (@curtis_yarvin), a political blogger and software developer (according to Wikipedia), is taken from a conversation with Peter McCormack (@PeterMcCormack) posted to McCormack's eponymous YouTube channel on February 23, 2026.
PARTIAL TRANSCRIPTION OF CLIP "Both foreign trade and migration is actually a little taste of the future. Because when you're importing basically slave labor, you're treating them like Optimus robots, basically. You don't have a social connection to your Optimus robot, and you don't have a social connection to your Uber driver, Muhammad from Oman. Right. You just don't. Right. And one of them is fellow human being. One of them is not. "But like, actually, the distance on the social graph from you to Muhammad from Oman probably runs through some like Gulf Prince or something. And it's like 30 steps long. Right. And when you have basically a labor class that is not socially connected to the labor demanding class, that's already a robot economy, that's already a slave economy, basically. "Somebody on Twitter came up with something really nice about the whole immigration system that I really loved. Maybe it's not comprehensible on this side of the Atlantic, but the point— Try me. He's like, you know, what this immigration phenomenon is, is what you're seeing is Americans have become half abolitionist and half slaveholder. "They're abolitionists because they have the moral theories of abolitionists, but actually the labor structure of their economy is very reminiscent of the Confederacy. And what you will see with these immigration crackdown is, well, he'll limit, you know, limousine liberals in Santa Monica being like, Anna Maria can't take care of my children today. Right. "Because Anna Maria didn't get emancipated exactly. But like, something like that, she got deported, and the result is the same. Anna Maria is not there. And you, you know, you're gonna have to go to your law job. Oh, wait, that doesn't exist anyway, so why don't you take care of the kids? Right? "You know, and like, and, and that's. That, that's what you're seeing. I think we're seeing sort of the same thing of like, actually this system, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense in a lot of different ways, is kind of surviving on these kind of frictional structures. And then when the friction evaporates, it's just gone. "And what do these people do? I don't know. Nobody's starving in America. There's soup kitchens, you know, something's. There's SNAP cards, EBT. You can sell the house, you know, you can live on that for a while. Yeah, it's actually, it's kind of grim. "And moreover, you have this situation where, you know, at the same time as these countries import huge numbers of military aged men to do menial labor. They have large numbers of people in the country who are not even capable of doing menial labor because they're just like tower block chavs, you know, and like, actually work is entirely beyond them. Work is not beyond Muhammad from Oman."
