Posted on 07/31/2018 9:38:04 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Successful companies understand that labor is a mere commodity and in many cases fungible.
Take McDonald’s for example.
The shareholders do not care if your order is taken my a human or a machine, the consumer does not care if their order is taken by a human or a machine, the machine does not give a damn if your order is taken by a human or a machine, and the Big Mac does not give a crap who or what takes the order.
In all of that, the McDonald’s worker has to compete against a machine, and the steel worker in Pennsylvania has to compete against the Chinese steel worker.
You mean ,”US citizen.”
Else you are a RINO globalist trip.
Liar.
Companies want to privatize profits, and socialize costs.
They want cheap foreign labor, but they want their assets secure in the US, where that security was paid for with the blood of American citizens.
If they want Indian labor, then they should move to India, and have their assets in Indian banks and the Indian stock market.
Alternately, we can do what Trump has been doing with cheap Chinese crap: have a tariff. You want to buy cheap Indian labor? Fine, but that H1B visa will have a price tag of $100K/year. Buy as many as you want. Help fund the government with it.
If someone is in the country legally and can legally work in the United States, why should a company not be able to hire them for a job that that they are qualified, and why should the federal government dictate who a company must hire?
“Companies want to privatize profits, and socialize costs.”
That is and has always been the fault of the people we elect, and it is our fault that those people are elected.
“Alternately, we can do what Trump has been doing with cheap Chinese crap: have a tariff. You want to buy cheap Indian labor? Fine, but that H1B visa will have a price tag of $100K/year. Buy as many as you want. Help fund the government with it.”
What about the American Auto Worker that is replaced by a robot?
Do you want to tax that robot they same way you tax that Indian labor?
If not, what’s the difference between having your job replaced by an Indian or a robot?
For that matter, should we place a tax on automated checkouts at the grocery store and McDonalds?
Job loses due to automation and displacing through offshoring and importation of labor are totally different things.
The robot doesn't vote, the robot doesn't chain migrate 100 family members, the robot doesn't use taxpayer resources. Is that enough for you?
“Job loses due to automation and displacing through offshoring and importation of labor are totally different things.”
How are they different?
Does it feel better when your house is foreclosed because you lost your job to a machine than it does when your house is foreclosed because you lose your job to offshoring?
The robot doesn't vote, the robot doesn't chain migrate 100 family members, the robot doesn't use taxpayer resources. Is that enough for you?
The guy with the H1B Visa pays taxes.
The robot does not.
And the guy with the H1B Visa does not get to vote.
But also at a rate commensurate with the currently prevailing wage in the US.
And the guy he replaces is on unemployment.
It is also flush with H1Bs. I know.
And what about present federal statutory ban which prevents American workers who have been fired and then replaced by illegal aliens from suing the employer or the coyote?
They are indentured servants, 21st century slaves. But some get a green card and some do become citizens. All of the ones I've known that did that are flaming liberals.
They were flush with H1B’s long before this guy took over.
“And the guy he replaces is on unemployment.”
Just like the guy who gets replaced by a machine.
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