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Migrants aren't pushing down wages. It's your boss. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 months ago by cyu to c/unions

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[–] crispyflagstones 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

i mean, the employers in your industry are the ones deciding where to source talent. The engineers in these remote markets are just picking up jobs that are likely paying above-average for their locale. Which opportunities only exist because employers extend them...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wholeheartedly agreed. The existence and ability to just easily off-shore everything and reduce costs, to a business; is like candy to a baby. You don’t blame the candy, or the baby, but you blame the circumstances that lead the candy to the baby. Keeping jobs at home is the only way towards the prosperity of the middle class. We unfortunately have policies that just favor the wealthy class over the middle class, and things like this happen.

[–] crispyflagstones 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

In this case, the baby is part of a global group of babies (the baby-ouisie?) that persuaded many of the governments of the world to pass free-candy-for-babies laws so they could save money in their candy budgets and deliver higher return to their shareholders, so in this case, i'll 100% blame the baby

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Honestly also very true. Something reductionist (and wrong) about my statement - the baby doesn’t have autonomy. They just go after impulse. Corporations do have autonomy, and typically choose to go against the middle class.

I did lol at the idea of a group of global babies trying to take over the world though 😂