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| Authored by: JamesK on Monday, July 22 2013 @ 08:18 AM EDT |
And what about the people who have lived their entire lives here, who suddenly
find themselves without a job? What are they supposed to do? With the way
companies sending work overseas or bringing in cheaper employees, they are
sending the country into a downward spiral, where only those at the top will
have enough to live on. Also, this isn't just an IT problem. It also affects
lawyers, accountants, medical lab techs and more. This also creates a steady
drain on the economy where more and more money leaves, never to return. I'm all
for trade, but it has to be balanced. Otherwise we're on a one way trip to 3rd
world status.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 23 2013 @ 07:16 AM EDT |
Mind you, an H-1B worker in the USA, after paying to live
here (and, usually, sharing an apartment with other H-1B
workers) is NOT a full member of the US economy since the
amount of money shipped overseas is not minimal.
While the landlord's rental charges do pay real-estate taxes
to support schools (depending upon locality) that the
workers are not using (not having brought children here) the
companies are showing that they think small in thinking that
there IS such a thing as a free lunch.
Mind you, the whole real estate collapse in the USA can be
blamed on the companies cutting pay rates in general-- H-1Bs
are a very very small part of this, to the point that they
don't really count, off-shoring does far more damage-- that,
all of a sudden, people here in the USA with mortgages
suddenly couldn't afford to pay them. Sure, a "tiny"
percentage... but some things just snowball.
Oddly enough, there are some workers I deal with in
Bangalore that, in my opinion, almost walk on water, but, in
an odd turn of irony, in a male-dominated culture, it is
those lacking a Y chromosome that seem to be the sharpest at
doing their jobs.
My main issue with low pay for off-shore work is that it
does a disservice to us ALL; Too many corporations are
trying to do away with Henry Ford's ONLY real innovation,
the one that catalyzed the world economy and made industry
possible on the scale we are quickly losing: "Pay the
workers enough that they can afford to buy the products they
are making".
If we turn our back on Ford's one innovation it will likely
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