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I just find the mental gymnastics fascinating that they are talking about how these people are living in abject poverty, and yet in the same article have the ga
by pentae 8y ago
I just find the mental gymnastics fascinating that they are talking about how these people are living in abject poverty, and yet in the same article have the gall to highlight how people in the US are losing their jerbs. Which is it? Are we helping people in poor countries have a slightly better quality of life by working in an air conditioned office vs agriculture, or are we taking US jobs? It's one or the other.
- azernik 8y agoWhy can't it be both?
- zeroname 8y agoYou obviously can't save the jobs in one country and also create those same jobs in another country. The only way for both sides to profit (over the long run) is for either country to do the job it can do the most efficiently, i.e. comparative advantage. In practice, that's a real tough concept for people to come to terms with. People want to have their cake and eat it too.
- xvedejas 8y agoThere are enough non-zero-sum effects in economics that this isn't plainly apparent to me. It seems like quite a claim, really. For instance, I find it plausible that cheap labor from overseas may actually help subsidize the creation of an industry, which might grow enough to need more employees in the US for related work.
- cloakandswagger 8y agoIt's actually a pretty reasonable and logical claim, supported by 20 years of globalism that gutted American employment.
- Setepenre 8y agoWhat is this ? Rational thoughts on the internet.
- Barrin92 8y ago>You obviously can't save the jobs in one country and also create those same jobs in another country. Who would want to create the exact same jobs that fit the needs of a labour market in the poorest region of the world in the US? What's the point of having someone in the US who went through at least 12 years of education to manually select pixels on a screen? Getting those jobs to people in Nairobi is good for them because it lifts them out of dangerous and hazardous jobs, and it would be a horrible place to work at in a developed country.
- selimthegrim 8y agoNew Orleans, a city with 50% functional illiteracy, would like a word with you.
- Rescis 8y agoDo you have a source for that? While still in definite need of improvement, the highest number for illiteracy I can find is 40%, and that is for adults exclusively.
- selimthegrim 8y ago47% in 2003 according to https://books.google.com/books?id=v1x2cbHvULAC&pg=PA35&lpg=PA35&dq=new+orleans+functional+illiteracy&source=bl&ots=7pum3F-P_l&sig=SHzPk9KqpqTVDIpdr49TvuhHnH8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi0xZC1xbveAhUM5YMKHWzuDnAQ6AEwEHoECAAQAQ#v=onepage&q=new%20orleans%20functional%20illiteracy&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=v1x2cbHvULAC&pg=PA35&lpg=P... The state of affairs may have improved in the interim
- BurningFrog 8y agoIt's obviously both. Does "It's one or the other" come from some idea that this must either be "good" or "bad"? Just trying to make sense of this strange assertion.
- credit_guy 8y agoThe job of tagging data for supervised learning did not exist 10 years ago. Now that it exists, the first people to be employed in this job are in low-wage countries. These guys did not replace anybody in the first world. They are not "taking US jobs". Or do you have somehow in mind that the US workers should have first dibs at any new types of jobs?