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FWD.us To Laid-Off Southern California Edison Workers: Boo-Hoo
theodp writes: Speaking at a National Journal LIVE event that was sponsored by Mark Zuckerberg's FWD.us and Laurene Powell Jobs' Emerson Collective, FWD.us "Major Contributor" Lars Dalgaard was asked about the fate of 500 laid-off Southern California Edison IT workers, whose forced training of their H-1B worker replacements from offshore outsourcing companies sparked a bipartisan Senate investigation. "If you want the job, make yourself able to get the job," quipped an unsympathetic Dalgaard (YouTube). "Nobody's going to hold you up and carry you around...If you're not going to work hard enough to be qualified to get the job...well then, you don't deserve the job." "That might be harsh," remarked interviewer Niharika Acharya. Turning to co-interviewee Pierre-Jean Cobut, FWD.us's poster child for increasing the H-1B visa cap, Acharya asked, "Do you agree with him?" "Actually, I do," replied PJ, drawing laughs from the crowd.
No, customers create the potential, or demand, for jobs to be created. Now, someone can create a company, and jobs, w/o potential and fail...there's no market. And, of course, they can fail for many other reasons. So, there's an equation to be had here for a job to be worth a shit, and yes the customers are part of it, but your statement fails to include the corporation which does in fact create the job.
Just another day in Paradise
He just isnt willing to work for what these H1B's are willing to work for.
The evidence that many of you IT folks are overpaid is on the table. The cognitive dissonance leads to anger and hate. The alternative is not protectionism. In no way will artificially keeping your wages high benefit our society. Inefficiency is never a net benefit. if the inefficiency benefits you then sure you want to keep it going, but thats greed. Not the fake greed some are so often accused of. When you wish for our society to be lessened through the shackles of mandated inefficiency for only your own benefit, thats pure greed. The evil kind.
Now that these 500 super-star IT people were laid off... where are the startups they are starting?
"His name was James Damore."
it's not a good theory, or practice, even if it did apply to everyone. we live in a society, not some dog-eat-dog nightmare-fantasy hellhole.
That's right. Fuck those poor Indians who think they have a shot a decent income by coming over to the US.