Without mass import of labor, wages have to go up in order to keep employees.
Crap like the H1B visas for tech workers lets guys like Gates overpay the execs and pay the workers peanuts, while holding pulling their visas over them if they get out of line.
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That’s not all, just the obvious surface.
What the H1B visa program also does is replace American citizens with foreign imports that have no loyalty to America or its people.
this is after and/or while the same companies, corporations and businesses are sold to hostile foreign countries.
A complete decoupling of American citizens from any means of production other than minimum wage service work.
And the illegal immigration to remove American citizens from the minimum wage service work.
billion cash dividend. They literally had so much money, they couldn't figure out what to do with it.
If they'd just bought state bonds with it, they'd have generated $1 billion in free cash flow, without touching the principal.
That billion would have paid for all US citizen workers, without affecting profits, without EVEN TOUCHING THE PILE.
Only possible solution? Give THEMSELVES the money and hire H1-Bs.
And now Bill Gates is on film calling his vaccine "The Final Solution."
For awhile, Jeff Bozos was the richest human in the history of the planet, but claimed he couldn't afford to pay his temp workers' health care.
Nuke Silicon Valley and Seattle.