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Originally Posted by bizaro86
I'm not sure. There seems to be an inconsistency between these two positions:
"This job can be done fully remote, productivity is not a problem at all"
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"You could never outsource this job to cheaper labour overseas successfully, it has to be done here"
I know a few people who hold both of those positions tightly, and aside from maybe racism I can't see a worldview where that's internally consistent.
If you can do your job from your house in Calgary why can't someone do it from Alabama or India for less money?
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It has nothing to do with racism, it is because there is an inherent mismatch where a business takes advantage of a country by operating in it, taking advantage of tax regimes, geopolitical steadiness, access to trade, or whatever other advantage it can receive, but is not giving back to the population of the country who are inherently the ones allowing its existence.
It is the same thought process for companies who do everything to dodge paying tax. They want all of the advantages of the safety of a well funded emergency services sector, strong infrastructure, judicial strength, lack of corruption, but are unwilling to pay the price for those things. Then when you combine that with a lack of employment for the local populace you are doubly denying the jurisdiction you work in the necessary funding to provide those advantages to you.
From a pure capitalist viewpoint it is maximizing profits and doing it's job. As a very real part of society, these corporations are nothing but a leech on the country and the people that they rely on to provide them the ability to make profits.
