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Write all these down: - Pay your local workers livable wages and dont fuck the local population. Where are most of the customers located? - If you want to hir
by cambalache 6y ago
Write all these down:
- Pay your local workers livable wages and dont fuck the local population. Where are most of the customers located?
- If you want to hire foreign workers pay them the same or a substantial fraction of your local workers. If they are good their nationality should not matter.
- Hire and pay directly not through intermediates, dont wash your hands off from all the regulations you need to comply with.
Here we have a company which is effectively paying 10-20% of what a local worker would get (Net Salaries+Taxes+Compliance Requirements,etc). Are they going to charge for their product 10% of the US price in the Philippines?
Many companies want the "good things" about globalization: Access to cheap, unregulated workforce, free-flow of capitals, lack of responsibility for any externality created (are they contributing to social security?) but complain about the other side: worldwide liability, open borders, different regulations.
- yibg 6y agoHow much is a substantial fraction and who determines that? Is it a simple fraction or does it depend on the market and competitive landscape? Is it something governments should regulate or should consumers vote with their wallets? Companies should adhere to regulations though, no arguments there.
- cambalache 6y ago> How much is a substantial fraction and who determines that I determine that and I say +80% , you dont get weasel out of this with useless semantic distinctions. > Is it a simple fraction As oppose to a "complex" one? > Is it something governments should regulate or should consumers vote with their wallets? The company owners should be ethical enough to pay that. Do you use this kind of sophistry to justify your compensation or what you charge for your product or service? I highly suspect that is not the case. Easy peasy to play Aristotle when it is about poor working-people living money.
- tjs8rj 6y agoYou either don’t understand human nature and economic incentives or you don’t care. You’re either ignorant or authoritarian.
- smaddox 6y agoIgnorant and authoritarian tend to go hand in hand.
- cambalache 6y agoOK I am ignorant authoritarian, now please work for me for 1USD/h. Put up or shut up.
- yibg 6y agoDo you not buy anything made overseas that pays workers less than 80% of some us based rate? You don’t own an iPhone I assume? You don’t own anything with an intel in it?
- cambalache 6y ago> You don’t own an iPhone I assume? No I dont. > You don’t own anything with an intel in it? No. > Do you not buy anything made overseas that pays workers less than 80% of some us based rate? This is all what I have bought in the last 12 months (besides food and rent and services) 2 used jeans 2 used cargo shorts 3 T-shirts (5 USD each) 10 pair of boxers (New, 3 USD each) 1 100 USD phone That's have been my total consumption. In my place I use 1 lightbulb, 1 small fridge, 1 rice maker and the laptop. Any other question?
- kanwisher 6y agothat 100 USD phone was made by poor low paid people in a poor country
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- robjan 6y agoIf you have to pay 80% of the local wages it's not worth outsourcing and the Philippine economy loses out. Additionally it would completely mess up the Philippine economy. Suddenly people would rather work in a call centre than, for example, become a doctor because the salaries would be high and barrier to entry low.