[samfoo]

And because you won the genetic lottery, you get to exclude access to a country that spent billions and maybe trillions of dollars building its infrastructure?

Doing off-shore contracting work while traveling can only ever be a net positive for a country. Money is repatriated from overseas and pumped into the local economy and no jobs are expatriated.

[kijin]

> no jobs are expatriated

Yes, but good luck convincing politicians and voters that one person doing paid work != another person whose job is now gone. As if the number of jobs was a zero-sum game.

[fijal]

I think you missed the point. The job will be performed whether the person is on the soil or not. It's next to completely irrelevant whether you accept someone or not - he'll do the job anyway with modern IT infrastructure.

That's obviously blatantly false, because we're still connecting to other people in real life, however it's a point where we're increasingly heading.

[fijal]

Well ok, I was just trying to provide some food for politicians

[kijin]

I think you missed the point. I'm clearly in agreement with both @samfoo and you.