Re:Laid-Off Americans, Required to Zip Lips on Way Out, Grow...
by awinder on Saturday June 11, 2016 @06:57PM
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These companies depress wages for the people that live & work in the US though, not just for the people they displace. The downstream effects on the places impacted mean this is a consequence that ripples through communities of people who live in and support their nation of residence.
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Re:Laid-Off Americans, Required to Zip Lips on Way Out, Grow...
by _audakel on Saturday June 11, 2016 @07:16PM
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Foreign workers (fw) who work for less $ than the Domestic worker (dw) drive down wages. In this case fw is benefited by making more than they would in native country, while dw makes less than the old rate.
Paying old rate generally means dw keeps old rate, while fw makes nothing. This is the inverse where the dw is benefited at the expense of the fw.
If all people are equal who should recieve the benift?
Re:Laid-Off Americans, Required to Zip Lips on Way Out, Grow...
by awinder on Sunday June 12, 2016 @12:07AM
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What's the utility to people in dw society of providing benefits to fw? This has happened across broad industries and dw through their governments have signed trade deals that usually include retraining for the workers affected. Otherwise, dw and their governments end up subsidizing the costs of corporations making bank which has so little social benefit that it's really not normal to allow it to go on.
It's not a free for all in places like India to allow fw to displace their dw or drive down their dw salaries. The US is getting taken for a ride with these policies.
Re:Laid-Off Americans, Required to Zip Lips on Way Out, Grow...
by Hondor on Sunday June 12, 2016 @02:48AM
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dw's society can produce goods at lower cost than without fw. But really there doesn't need to be any benefit to dw's society unless dw's people consider themselves privileged and deserving a better life than the world's poor simply because they happened to be born into it.
Re:Laid-Off Americans, Required to Zip Lips on Way Out, Grow...
by invalidOrTaken on Sunday June 12, 2016 @04:01AM
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>If all people are equal who should receive the benefit?
The million dollar question is: which ones are you entrusted to represent?