ConfuciusSay02

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by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago
It doesn't inspire much confidence in the study when it doesn't even acknowledge the pervasive issue of astroturfing online.
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by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago
Total strawman argument. Nobody is suggesting bringing back turn-of-the-century industries. When people talk of keeping jobs, they are talking about high tech manufacturing jobs. When a company is deciding where to build it's next manu
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by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago
Are you suggesting when Obama added Iraq to the list he was lying about what information they share? North Korea is not on the list because literally nobody is travelling from North Korea to the United States.
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by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago
Overpaid? We're paying people $30M a year to throw a ball into a hoop, and we're paying other people millions to recite a few lines in a movie. Why shouldn't engineers, part of a class of worker that arguably brings much more
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by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago
Wrong. The wage of that specialized position will increase, thus attracting more people into that specialized field.
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by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago
The problem is that we ever believed the nonsense that there's some information source that is NOT a product, complete with biases and agendas. The day the printing press was invented was the day print journalism was subverted to push
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by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago
It's not at all inevitable that we have to allow the hiring of mass amounts of immigrants. Why do you think it's inevitable?
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by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago
You can argue it does indirectly. If blue collar job wages are driven very low, more people will choose STEM careers, which will also serve to drive IT job wages down.
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by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago
I agree with that, but not sure how it refutes the point I was making.
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by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago
On the second point, it's easy to see why people are critical of Obama - since he did nothing on this front during his 8 years. As for Trump, at the very least he has talked about H1B reform, and if he does reform it, then who cares wh
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by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago
Yeah, because HN is one person...
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by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago
>Many of those hired on H1B are doing roles for which they simply can't get enough local talent This is the scam they want you to believe, but it's being abused to simply keep wages low. It's very easy to post fake job ads
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by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago
H1B reform has been talked about for going on a decade now. The fact that Trump wants to tackle this in no way represents a "divide and conquer" tactic.
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by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago
Do you need anything more than government should be enacting the will of its citizens? Seems to me that's the most principled stance one can take.
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by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago
"Americans won't do these jobs..." ...at the slave wage being offered. That's the part they never mention.
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by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago
The history of the United States largely revolves around subverting workers. Are you seriously doubting that large corporations want to drive wages down? Let's not forget that that Silicon Valley was the epicenter of the largest wage f
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by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago
All immigration serves to drive overall wages down.
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by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago
No, but we can vote for politicians who promise to reform or do away with the H1B program altogether. Are you suggesting Americans shouldn't vote for their own interests?
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by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago
A whole piece about what microphone he chose to use? This is beyond petty. Media not doing themselves any favors here.
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by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago
Perhaps it has something to do with the institutionalized abuse of the immigration system in order to import workers who are paid less and are far less likely to leave or demand higher wages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago
It's something employers do because they can't fill those jobs... [at the slave wage offered] That last part is rarely, if ever, mentioned when the "locals won't do these jobs" nonsense gets trotted out.
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by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago
Scientists are humans operating in large institutions. It is undeniable that humans and human-run institutions are subject to all the same corrupting factors that every other person or institution is. It's alarming that most of the com
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by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago
It's hard to take someone like this seriously when he comes from the elite banking class that has long been at war with the Chavez/Maduro faction. He's about as partisan as you can get.
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by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago
Is this post satire? Your prescription for solving the problem is more or less identical to what Trump has stated he plans to do with respect to trade with China.
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by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago
[citation needed] Populism by definition is closer to being synonymous with a functioning democracy that it is to mob rule.
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by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago
That makes no sense. If immigration is responsible for changing culture, how could it not be the national government's job? There's more than a few countries that have laws stating that it's essentially treason to modify the
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by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago
Waaah, my think tanks are better than yours. The article claims that all these alternative viewpoints are false, but they totally fail to actually refute anything specific. The article is more of an attempt to slander every alternative view
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by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago
Authoritarian regimes usually rest on more fragile underpinnings. If anything it's the inverse, authoritarian regimes have a lot MORE to fear from a "misinformed" public. This is borne out by the fact that we see authoritaria
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by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago
They tried that mate. But it turns out it's hard to find credible weapons experts that are total hacks with no qualms about lying. When it became clear that their chosen expert was going to expose the fact that there were indeed NO WMD
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by ConfuciusSay02 10y ago
Influencing opinion online is many orders of magnitude easier to accomplish than faking WMD's in Iraq.

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