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Do companies have a moral obligation to distribute jobs geographically? Assuming that the issue is that these positions weren't remote then if they decided tha
by allemagne 3y ago
Do companies have a moral obligation to distribute jobs geographically?
Assuming that the issue is that these positions weren't remote then if they decided that they're better served by workers that live locally then they're either right and you're asking them to harm their own interests for yours or they're wrong and they're just leaving money on the table for a competitor. If they aren't harmed for giving up a competitive edge then that monopoly power to just ignore the market is the actual problem.
Either way, work visas isn't even close to the most salient problem. Restrict them and who's to say how startups will find loopholes to avoid hiring who we want them to hire. Let's just cut out all the messiness and cut them checks directly. Call it reparations for the coasts ignoring the good honest midwest American talent all these years.
- alephnerd 3y ago> Restrict them and who's to say how startups will find loopholes We'll just open offices in Israel, Eastern Europe, and India instead and pay 70% of a US salary. It already started happening in 2019, and avalanched during the pandemic.
- bluecheese452 3y agoThe obvious response to that is to not allow companies that outsource jobs to sell in the domestic market.
- alephnerd 3y agoAnd then those companies sell in other countries. When the US banned Israeli companies from selling military IP to China, they began selling to India. Drone tech saw a similar impact, hence why Chinese and Turkish Drone companies are outcompeting American ones in both commercial and defense applications.
- bluecheese452 3y agoGood let them.