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I'll be concise here: you can hire an American. There are plenty of people who can do that job living in New York City.
by muninn_ 10y ago
I'll be concise here: you can hire an American. There are plenty of people who can do that job living in New York City.
- krzyk 10y agoWhy hire someone new and train him when you have a guy that doesn't need training.
- muninn_ 10y agoBecause that guy lives in a different country, and the business is in the United States.
- wdcgu 10y agoAh, don't you miss good old xenophobia and isolationism?
- muninn_ 10y agoWhen every country on the planet hasn't open borders, the US can too. Until then, we will manage and judge who gets to come here. End of story. Calling it xenophobia is meaningless here, unless you're characterizing every country on the planet that way, in which case your comment has no teeth.
- cpburns2009 10y agoPreferring to hire people from already in your own country would be patriotic rather than isolationist. That's not xenophobia though because there's no irrational or intense fear of foreigners. That is unless "xenophobia" has been perverted to now mean anything that isn't hardcore globalist.
- NetStrikeForce 10y agoWhat's an objective reason to hire someone born locally vs someone born abroad? Apart from saying "patriotism", what other advantages does it offer?
- cpburns2009 10y agoI meant anyone already in the country and legally permitted to work, not the country you were born in. One objective reason to favor hiring a candidate living locally over one abroad is effective communication. The less local a candidate is, the greater the chance of poor communication due to increasingly diverging dialects and cultures and a lack of knowledge about the local culture.
- NetStrikeForce 10y ago> I meant anyone already in the country and legally permitted to work, not the country you were born in. Ah, fair enough, I guess the reason is to "avoid the process of bringing someone from abroad". Sounds pragmatic enough to me. > One objective reason to favor hiring a candidate living locally over one abroad is effective communication. The less local a candidate is, the greater the chance of poor communication due to increasingly diverging dialects and cultures and a lack of knowledge about the local culture. You have just contradicted yourself; but let's bite: Even if this looks reasonable to you, it's nowhere near the problem you think it is and most of the times far outweighed by the other reasons you had to choose a non-locally-born-or-raised candidate. It also decreases diversity, which studies show is an advantage and not just a nicety.
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- krzyk 10y agoNo, the business is international with HQ outside US. They just have a branch in the US.
- muninn_ 10y agoRight so it's a non-American company, so hire somebody in the Us for that branch.
- wdcgu 10y agoThis free market thing isn't really working out. The government should just run everything, make 5 year plans and assign jobs to everyone. Oh wait, but that's communism, nvm then.
- muninn_ 10y agoCompared to communism, this "free market" is like a shiny, golden, heavenly angel of salvation. But, what we are talking about here is government policy. We have a government and it makes rules. There are other governments and they make rules too. Since that's the system we have, we need to analyze and balance what's right, and what works.