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Think of human labor as a natural resource. If the employer is overseas, you're selling the raw resource. You'd rather make some goods out of the resource and s
by mertd 5y ago
Think of human labor as a natural resource. If the employer is overseas, you're selling the raw resource. You'd rather make some goods out of the resource and sell that instead.
- PostOnce 5y agoIt's not as though most countries have a local Google / Facebook / etc clone, so they can't "make the goods" domestically, there's no "means of production" in-country.
- twojacobtwo 5y agoTo me, that just means that an equivalent local worker is worth more than the remote worker, but the remote worker would still be a net inflow regardless, as the parent comment said.
- austhrow743 5y agoYou as the country the prospective remote worker could be visiting aren't the owner of the human labor though. The human labor and employer are both overseas and you have the option of getting one to visit you and spend their money in your land. Everything about the scenario exactly mirrors tourism as far as I can see, and countries generally like rich tourists visiting.