Comment by stego-tech 8 days ago
I make said argument fully aware of the point of such schemes. It’s why I suggested, “You know, this is a good opportunity to rebalance the scales somewhat by utilizing a shared goal to extract reasonable concessions.”
I think any idiot with two functioning neurons can see the ruling class of India is trying to pull the same strategy China used to take manufacturing: consistently undercut foreign wages, centralizing knowledge and power before turning it on their customers and extracting wealth and power from countries or organizations that outsourced to them in the first place. I think it’s less a matter of who has more or less power, and more that there is an opportunity here for reconciliation in a way that most sides benefit to some significant degree.
* Foreign workers in the USA have more earning potential under such a compromise, allowing them to send more money home or bring family members abroad
* Foreign workers abroad see less exploitation and have more impact on domestic policies and industry
* Domestic workers see a slowing or reversal of outsourcing, increasing wages and job prospects
* Corporate leaders hold off another over-centralization of power by another hostile state, retaining agency and profits for themselves.
“The math” is not the be-all-end-all of things, for if it were we would have never lowered taxes as low as we did, enacted debilitatingly unsustainable defined-benefits programs like many pensions and Social Security, or handed out corporate subsidies as if money was free. “The math” paints a clear outcome of the current path that harms the collective peoples of multiple countries just so a handful of monied-classes can reap most of the rewards for themselves.
Stop relying solely on short-term data with limited constraints, or big data patterns absent context. Do some critical thinking and path predictions, and these sorts of answers become pretty glaringly obvious, as does the ability for a unique compromise to head things off now instead of a full-on hostile protectionist agenda if this is left unresolved.
The framing of your quote seems to think that people who are clearly not in charge, are the ones in charge that can do something about it eh?
Or, frankly, that if the people who are not currently in charge were put in charge, something different would be happening.
It seems rather silly, frankly.
If you’re assuming title and rank is the sole decider of who is “in charge”, then your argument holds water.
In all other cases, it falls apart like wet newspaper.
Frankly.
My point is the entire point of them is to extract unreasonable concessions.
The math has only shifted even more favorably for extracting even more unreasonable concessions too.
Or do you think there is a sudden lack of Indian H1B applicants? Or that tech workers suddenly have more political power than they previously did?