alt text: 18 of our 40 employees are located in the Philippines. Insanely competent, great judgement, and $5 per hour. If you run a small business and don't have overseas help you're at a disadvantage
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Sure yes short term it is probably a good option for the average Filipino or any other person taking an American job in a foreign country for less money than that company would pay an American because yeah it does pay relatively well in their situation. However, it takes advantage of their material situation to pay them monetarily less than they would be paid in the US. Essentially it uses the fact that they need the money more (their demand) to pay them less. Is this not similar to paying any American poor person less because they need it more?
Regardless of how you feel about the morality of all that it's fucking terrible for the Philippines. That Filipino labor is not benefitting the Filipino economy it's benefitting the US economy. This might not be so bad if they were being paid more or even up to the amount that they make for that American company (though this would never happen under capitalism bc a company needs profit) because at the very least that loss of labor power would be supplemented with equivalent monetary gain.
So in short, outsourced jobs takes advantage of poor people to pay them less and strips foreign economies of their labor power
No because the poor american still has to pay high US prices for everything they buy. You can't live a decent life in the US with $5 an hour but you can in the Philippines where the minimum wage is around $10 a DAY. Another commentor in this thread told how their relative bought a restaurant dinner for 12 people for 50 bucks in the Philippines and that includes the tip.
This is not entirely true either. That Philipino working for the US company spends their earnings in the Philippines and that benefits their economy.
LOL, I'm the guy you quoted. The arguments in here are straight childish, with a child's view of how money works. They see $5/hr. and scream.
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?country=Philippines
And I question even those numbers! From what my wife and her friend's American husbands have told me, and from the videos I've watched, it seems even cheaper than that.
Then there are the idiots saying we should flood the country with American dollars, blow up inflation and the wealth gap. Sound economic planning right there.
You're straw-manning. No one is advocating for flooding the country with foreign money. I've been reading your comments and I think you might be misunderstanding the argument. It's a more nuanced criticism about capitalism, not an argument for how much workers for foreign companies in the Philippines should be paid.