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If you examined your thoughts more closely, you'd realize they're ridiculous. Should we pay everyone the same in a given country? Should a food deliverer make
by codersfocus 3y ago
If you examined your thoughts more closely, you'd realize they're ridiculous.
Should we pay everyone the same in a given country? Should a food deliverer make the same as a surgeon? No? Then this creates an economic hierarchy already. This economic hierarchy exists for countries as well.
- soulofmischief 3y agoThe mentality that low foreign wages are necessary to sustain a certain quality of life is by definition classism, we just don't notice how unfair it is because we outsource what cheap labor we can, and do a great job of segregating the remaining cheap domestic labor class from the middle and upper classes. It's not ridiculous to examine this. Your example compares the relative value of different professions, which is not relevant, because the context of this discussion is the comparison of domestic and foreign labor for the same professions. Pragmatically speaking, there will always be an economic gradient under a capitalist system, as this gradient is necessary for the system to work. But we should still be mindful of the impact of our decisions at every level of the system. Parent poster was suggesting that a cheap foreign labor market is required in order to create a better national energy grid. Economic policies which rely upon this sort of thinking inevitably establish structural classism. There is no moral excuse for structural classism, which is quite a different discussion than your comparison of food delivery and surgery as two services with a different inherent value.