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by future_unclear 6y ago
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by future_unclear 6y ago
The conditions are different now. Infrastructure is better, foreign workers are better trained, American company culture is different (ceos of Microsoft and Google both Indian), and the possibility of American workers creating political fri
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by future_unclear 6y ago
> Pretty quickly, many companies will discover the pitfalls to outsourcing. Probably true, however by then they will already have made the decision and it will be priced in to the company’s stock. The System is replete with the consequen
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by future_unclear 6y ago
There are millions of south Asians who’d be happy to work any hour of the day you ask them to.
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by future_unclear 6y ago
Removing geography from the hiring equation is going to fuck American tech workers. Once you’ve gone digital, there’s no (on paper) difference between a programmer in the Philippines or in Iowa except the one in Iowa is much more expensive.
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by future_unclear 6y ago
I think you overestimate the degree to which Americans would care. In order to move Americans you’d need to propagandize through media, but all current media has a vested interest in perpetuating the military industrial complex. Any attempt
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by future_unclear 6y ago
How was that disinformation?
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by future_unclear 6y ago
Words cannot cause trauma. The mind engages with words in such a way that leads to trauma.
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by future_unclear 6y ago
Introduce income tax. Use the tax money to build infrastructure that allows for concentrated mega growth which kills off traditional economies and destroys thousands of years of crafting knowledge, and then introduce increasingly severe pol
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by future_unclear 6y ago
A few things that will likely come from this: 1) It will take away the only social outlet many people have. Someone may reply that work was never the appropriate place for that anyways but the real world has never worked that way. Humans ha