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It's funny. Here we have a bunch of people worried about the effects of systematic abuse of a legal framework by companies who skirt or break the law to pay dar
by fennecfoxen 10y ago
It's funny. Here we have a bunch of people worried about the effects of systematic abuse of a legal framework by companies who skirt or break the law to pay darker-skinned people less money (in part because those people's job mobility is seriously depressed; they can't legally get an arbitrary job of their choosing). Here is legislation which is proposed to fix that by keeping those people out of the US to begin with.
Cut the salaries involved to 20% of what they are now, change the legal framework from "H1-B" to "no visa at all," and you've just described a stereotypical Donald Trump voter. AND YET I cannot help but imagine that those who would support this proposed legislation would be shocked at the comparison to those horrible terrible racist people.
- dredmorbius 10y agoYou're right. The dynamics aren't unrelated. But paying full costs for labour is long-term necessary. Again, Smith, in one of his less-frequently cited passages.