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> I don't feel how I'm entitled to my current salary No one is entitled to anything. It is purely about protecting your bargaining power. Tech peeps should lea
by RestlessMind 5y ago
> I don't feel how I'm entitled to my current salary
No one is entitled to anything. It is purely about protecting your bargaining power. Tech peeps should learn from Doctors/AMA. If you aren't vigilant about your privilege, others will be too happy to take that power away from you and enrich themselves. See who benefited from outsourcing manufacturing to China - only the outsourcing companies and Chinese middle class, but at a great loss to American middle class. While I completely understand Chinese middle class to fight for improving its lot, I don't understand why American middle class has to surrender its power so easily.
> We were drowning in work before and now we have some extra help. I don't see this as a bad trend.
LOL we might as well be working at the same company. Wait until you see the proportion of your foreign colleagues increasing. Again, same thing happened with manufacturing. "Oh but we are just seeing cheaper goods in our stores" was what they said in the beginning. And it was too late by the time capital owners established manufacturing elsewhere and drained out all those middle class jobs.
- ipaddr 5y agoDoesn't this largely improve the american middle class? Most remote workers will still come from the US but from places like Kansas or Ohio.
- flashgordon 5y agoHow do we measure this? Quality of health care available for MC today as opposed to 30 years ago? Quality of education? Home affordability? Cost of living? I thought in the US all these had declined in the last 30 years (in adjusted terms) - i dont know if outsourcing is what caused it though.