[Potando]

Doesn't it strike you as weird that there's a concept of "jobs moving overseas"? And that it's usually presented as a bad thing? Somehow even apparently reasonable people still have these blatantly discriminatory tribal attitudes and don't stop to see how unjust they are.

Back in history, white railway workers in America were unhappy about jobs going to Chinese immigrants. We even still have that but with Indians and call them "H1B"s which hides the racist undertones. Yet I've never heard anybody complain about "jobs going to local youths". Somehow a baby born near our house seems to be treated as a more deserving human being than one born somewhere else.

When jobs move overseas, that's usually a good thing, we should celebrate it! It means people overseas are getting more jobs! Very often those are even the same people most in need of more jobs so it's win-win.

[juliangregorian]

Yep tribalism/racism is probably the major factor, but nobody wants the local youths to be income-deprived and at a loss for something productive to do, because then they turn to crime, or start ISIS. Which I guess is fine if it's on the other side of the world. /s

[task_queue]

Jobs move overseas because employers don't want to pay us if they can find a pool of people that do not expect rights or market compensation for their labor.

It's like applauding McDonald's for replacing its minimum wage workers with indentured servants. They're ignoring basic human expectations about compensation so they can save money.

Now we don't have jobs, but the servants get to live in America! It should be celebrated.

If those people were to receive the same basic rights or fair market compensation for their labor, it would be a positive.

[true_religion]

Jobs tend to 'move' to areas where lower monetary compensation is required.

Would you have the same complaints about fair market compensation if an employer starts hiring software developers in low-cost of living areas like Mississippi or Louisiana instead of San Francisco or NYC.