> payroll/labor arbitrage

Or as it's known outside of academia, "business."

That's a much broader term. Being specific is very helpful in communication. If you just want to switch to a more easily understood term, "cheaper labor" seems like it would work.

Should businesses be mindless profit seeking machines, without care for the moral, social and environmental consequences of their actions? If the answer to this question is "no", then should they seek to benefit and protect particular communities constrained by national boundaries? Or should they seek to benefit and protect communities globally? None of these questions are easy. I do not have an answer, and can well understand those who answer "yes" to the first question out of fear of tackling the second ... but it is something that we developers will need to be increasingly aware of in the coming age of the DAO.

well said.

im not sure many of the disaffected youth turning into nazis have been in academia much

Which is why the crazies surround themselves with such a wall of ignorance and paranoia that they can no longer seem to distinguish academia, liberalism and islamic fundamentalism. The world must appear as such an undifferentiated wall of hostility and threat to them...

I suspect identity politics from the left is backfiring tremendously combined with a lack of jobs, you have pain and extreme hatred.

Also politics on both the left and right favors global corporations.

Identity politics and failed politics are ripping america apart.