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> not encourage companies to open offices in Canada and the EU. Opening offices in Canada and EU directly correlates to the sales of their products and servic
by randompwd 6y ago
> not encourage companies to open offices in Canada and the EU.
Opening offices in Canada and EU directly correlates to the sales of their products and services in those markets.
Not quite sure what your point is.
Forcing companies to hire out of the _massive_ pool of US workers(~330 million) is good for the country, its people, just not so good for the profit margins of the companies hiring foreign labour to save money & labour rights strength.
No skills in use that can't be learnt/trained.
- davidw 6y ago> Forcing companies to hire out of the _massive_ pool of workers is good for the country, its people, just not so good for the profit margins of the companies hiring foreign labour to save money & labour rights strength. Except that this is a myopic view of the economy as a zero-sum game that is not supported by actual... well, evidence. https://www.cato.org/blog/three-reasons-why-immigrants-arent-going-take-job https://www.cato.org/blog/three-reasons-why-immigrants-arent... The point about Canada and the EU is that companies can and will move operations to places with more liberal immigration systems. Taxes, innovation and many other benefits will accrue to those places, rather than the US.
- conanbatt 6y agoIf a software engineer is hired by a US firm, or his products purchased by Americans, do you want that engineer to be in the US or outside the US?