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>Be honest - your actual complaint is that reducing inequality sucks when you are at the top of the heap. While we're being honest, if you're working for a liv

>Be honest - your actual complaint is that reducing inequality sucks when you are at the top of the heap. While we're being honest, if you're working for a living rather than living off investments (i.e. the labor of others) you are nowhere near to the top of the heap. If you're living off the labor of others, opening the immigration floodgates is great news. More workers to play off against one another. H1-Bs are even better news.

yummyfajitas 11y ago
tl;dr; I'm only in the top 3'rd percentile and I feel envy for the top 1'st percentile, and I'm willing to cause millions to suffer dire poverty in order to mitigate my feelings of envy.
- crdoconnor 11y ago
  tl;dr you are primarily concerned with the exploitation of dire poverty in third world countries for personal gain. We both know that importing the best Bangladeshi talent to the United States because it's 50% cheaper than the average American is not going to help the average impoverished Bangladeshi. Quite the opposite, in fact.
  - yummyfajitas 11y ago
    you are primarily concerned with the exploitation of dire poverty in third world countries for mutual gain. Fixed that for you. FYI, I'm an American working for an Indian company. So according to your theory, I'm the one being happily exploited by global trade. By the way, according to your github profile, you live in Singapore. You were born there (Colm O'connor sounds like a very Singaporean name) and never plan to leave, right? Or is this a situation of "restrict their freedom to move, but not mine"?
    - dang 11y ago
      > Be honest - your actual complaint is that reducing inequality sucks when you are at the top of the heap. > [you're] willing to cause millions to suffer dire poverty in order to mitigate [your] feelings of envy > By the way, according to your github profile, you live in Singapore These things cross the line. It's fine to have a contrarian view but please don't put an acerbic and personal spin on it when posting here.

yummyfajitas 11y ago

tl;dr; I'm only in the top 3'rd percentile and I feel envy for the top 1'st percentile, and I'm willing to cause millions to suffer dire poverty in order to mitigate my feelings of envy.

crdoconnor 11y ago
tl;dr you are primarily concerned with the exploitation of dire poverty in third world countries for personal gain. We both know that importing the best Bangladeshi talent to the United States because it's 50% cheaper than the average American is not going to help the average impoverished Bangladeshi. Quite the opposite, in fact.
- yummyfajitas 11y ago
  you are primarily concerned with the exploitation of dire poverty in third world countries for mutual gain. Fixed that for you. FYI, I'm an American working for an Indian company. So according to your theory, I'm the one being happily exploited by global trade. By the way, according to your github profile, you live in Singapore. You were born there (Colm O'connor sounds like a very Singaporean name) and never plan to leave, right? Or is this a situation of "restrict their freedom to move, but not mine"?
  - dang 11y ago
    > Be honest - your actual complaint is that reducing inequality sucks when you are at the top of the heap. > [you're] willing to cause millions to suffer dire poverty in order to mitigate [your] feelings of envy > By the way, according to your github profile, you live in Singapore These things cross the line. It's fine to have a contrarian view but please don't put an acerbic and personal spin on it when posting here.