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The single largest expense for most people is housing, the cost of which varies widely within a country. Add to that state and city specific taxes and you have

by unmole 5y ago

The single largest expense for most people is housing, the cost of which varies widely within a country. Add to that state and city specific taxes and you have even more variation in effective disposable income. The idea that pay should be the same within a country but not across countries seems like special pleading.

kkfx 5y ago
Housing is an expensive, but not the only in the game: let's talk about pensions? Not only: what do you think States are for? They, formally, represent the interests of a cohort of people, in Democracies they formally represent the people at a whole. In a global work market how they can represent rights of their Citizens? Declaring war against some corporate-state? Witch law apply to a cross-border income? Which taxes? It's clear to anyone that the actual model of megacorps, private equity, zaibatsu, chaebol etc is to became Sovereign corporatocratic states that profit from a grey area between them and real States, but it's equally clear that have NOTHING to do with fairness or jobs. It's just a modern version of classic Indian's companies from UK, a group of criminals, drug smugglers, oppressors evolved to became banks (that's the REAL history of HSBC, for instance) profiting of some lie and peoples life. Location independent wages inside a country means help leveling the wages in the country, under a common law, fiscal system and not-that-different costs because yes houses have different prices, but connected enough for WFH ones do have not that much differences in developed countries. That means helping a transition from a urban-centric model to a distributed Riviera model. It's positive for employers and employees. Going beyond border is positive ONLY for biggest companies with their global footprint, big of IT thanks to their knowledge thanks to their mass surveillance capitalism AGAINST all others actors. If you are really convinced please try to prove the contrary. Try to see how a SBE can benefit from such market vs from the same inside country borders. For instance.
- unmole 5y ago
  > what do you think States are for? Whatever they're for, they have nothing to do with how much private companies decide to pay employees outside their borders. I'm not going bother responding to the rest of your rant.

by unmole 5y ago

kkfx 5y ago

Housing is an expensive, but not the only in the game: let's talk about pensions? Not only: what do you think States are for? They, formally, represent the interests of a cohort of people, in Democracies they formally represent the people at a whole. In a global work market how they can represent rights of their Citizens? Declaring war against some corporate-state? Witch law apply to a cross-border income? Which taxes? It's clear to anyone that the actual model of megacorps, private equity, zaibatsu, chaebol etc is to became Sovereign corporatocratic states that profit from a grey area between them and real States, but it's equally clear that have NOTHING to do with fairness or jobs. It's just a modern version of classic Indian's companies from UK, a group of criminals, drug smugglers, oppressors evolved to became banks (that's the REAL history of HSBC, for instance) profiting of some lie and peoples life. Location independent wages inside a country means help leveling the wages in the country, under a common law, fiscal system and not-that-different costs because yes houses have different prices, but connected enough for WFH ones do have not that much differences in developed countries. That means helping a transition from a urban-centric model to a distributed Riviera model. It's positive for employers and employees. Going beyond border is positive ONLY for biggest companies with their global footprint, big of IT thanks to their knowledge thanks to their mass surveillance capitalism AGAINST all others actors. If you are really convinced please try to prove the contrary. Try to see how a SBE can benefit from such market vs from the same inside country borders. For instance.

unmole 5y ago
> what do you think States are for? Whatever they're for, they have nothing to do with how much private companies decide to pay employees outside their borders. I'm not going bother responding to the rest of your rant.