[ek_hornbeck]

It isn’t just the salary that is an issue (some aren’t much lower than American salaries), but the number of work hours you can squeeze from Asian coolies. A lot of this is about rolling back the improvements in the workplace over the last century

The same thing applies to migrant agricultural and construction workers from Mexico and Central America. Those who are here illegally of course get paid below minimum wage under the table, but the legal guest workers are paid about the same as Americans in many cases. However, they are willing to work longer hours under much worse conditions (sanitation and safety in Mexico and Central America aren't on par with US standards).

"Work Americans won't do" has become a self-fulfilling prophecy, because work conditions were created to fit the standards of Third World coolie labor.

[kearnyirish2]

That’s right.

A friend who worked as a consultant in tech described how the Indian employees were forced to work weekends and such; the American consultants didn’t because their firms billed by the hour. When an Indian was finally emancipated (his period of sponsorship/indentured servitude was over), he’d just be replaced by another one.