U.S. October PPI Rises 6.5% YoY, Highest in Nearly Four Years

Re:U.S. October PPI Rises 6.5% YoY, Highest in Nearly Four Y... by m4ck_ on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:55PM (#50489529)

I'd sooner see offshoring banned than programs that bring in potentially motivated/skilled workers here (though they should still have limits), and I think it'd be more impactful. Theres the obvious dev/IT impact, and we also have companies like Google and Tesla eliminating humans from the workforce with AI and farming out oversight of that AI overseas. When your Waymo or Cybercab makes an oopsie some guy in Manilla or Nairobi is going to be handling it while the out of work uber/taxi driver is shivering in a tent under a bridge.

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Re:U.S. October PPI Rises 6.5% YoY, Highest in Nearly Four Y... by laughing_man on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:48PM (#50491225)

Offshoring restrictions tend to founder on practicalities. Exactly what constitutes offshoring? If a company creates a subsidiary in another country and hires people to produce a product, is that offshoring? What about when it buys a product from an independent company in another country?

If I fire a bunch of people in the US and hire the same number of people in another country to work on the same project, that's clearly offshoring. But what if I don't fire anyone in the US? What if I fire them five years later?

The whole thing is a mess for regulation and I suspect if you wrote regulations that weren't easy to bypass you'd hamstring local producers.

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