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> That's a bit of a leap. If someone lives in India, they are likely to have a standard of living below what would be considered poverty level in the United St

• hackerboos 12y ago
  > If someone lives in India, they are likely to have a standard of living below what would be considered poverty level in the United States. If you actively prevent them from taking a job that would take them out of poverty, how else would you describe that? And thus placing an American in poverty in the process. You've displaced their job and gave it to an Indian who is paid less (so the article suggests). Less federal income tax, less state tax and it's not unreasonable to assume that a portion of the paycheck will be returned to India. This is why we have foreign aid budgets and charities. People do care and want to give, but what you're suggesting is not the way to go about it. > This is my point. Why is it morally okay to exclude people from India, but not people from Detroit? Morally it's not OK. Agreed. Even economically it's possible, but not without severely driving down US living standards. Politically though, it's a disaster.