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Re:Facebook pay cuts for remote employees who move prove tha... by Consultant32452 on Saturday May 23, 2020 @03:09AM (#23280681)
>Why is being worse for the middle more important than being better for the very poor?

It's not, except for the extremely disingenuous way it was all sold to us. We knew what would happen to the rust belt. We told them "the jobs would come right back" and "it's better for everyone." Well, it wasn't. And if they had the audacity to complain we called them every bad name in the book. And in the blue collar case the poor people that it helped were largely in other countries. Can you imagine a politician making that sales pitch honestly? "We're gonna fuck over the working class, but it's gonna really make our rich richer and some poor people on the other side of the planet will be a little better off." I dare say, that would not have gone over well.

Re:Facebook pay cuts for remote employees who move prove tha... by samdamsamm on Saturday May 23, 2020 @04:03AM (#23280970)
This is all exactly right. Taking issue with global trade has been called “nationalist” and taking issue with global labor is called “racist”. It’s the dirtiest political trick in my lifetime.