You believe the status quo must be kept as is, even in a shifting global economy.
Oh, so we're free to buy goods and housing at third world prices? All the CEO's that make more than $500k a year have been fired and replaced with MBA's from India? No and no you say? Then it sounds like the "global economy" is still really a "capitalist crock of shit".
Apple's entry-level Software Engineer title makes an average base pay of $119,268, plus $34kish in additional incentives.
And you could cut that in half and it would still seem to be a vast sum to supporting a family on $30,000 a year as an auto mechanic. This defense of companies that have more money than God is bizarre, and a complete non-response to the issues of wage suppression the business talk of "free markets" going out the window the second they benefit the working class.
The companies listed Apple, Cisco, Verizon pay wages most of America could only dream of
And in the 30's, baseball players 'had jobs most America could only dream of'. Does nothing to change the fact that they were paid far less than they were worth due to anti-competitive practices from team owners.
Since H1Bs are, by law, required to be paid the same salaries as their American citizen counterparts, if anything
Increasing the size of the labor pool = reduced "prevailing wages". It matters not a whit that the Indian programmer is getting $40k a year, same as his American counterpart in the next cube, if the American's wage would be $48k a year without H1B labor.
Reverse is true. Even if you aren't a member of a union, you benefit from a union forcing employers to pay more wages and benefits in your industry. But 'Murricans like yourself would prefer to make less money and be more expendable rather than pay fifty bucks a month in dues.
It's like not wanting to pay taxes for public roads while at the same time enjoying the benefits they provide.
You should pay a tax on top of the H1B employees wages that makes the full package 20% more costly than employing a US worker.
But if the wage suppression resulting from H1B results in a 30% reduction in the prevailing wage, it's still worth it for them. It's like the banks that get fined a few hundred million for practices that made them billions in profits - they actually have an incentive to go on abusing the system.
A very well written non-response to the issue of wage suppression. As if everyone is free to pull up stakes and move, and there will be a nice six figure job waiting for you at the end of said move. And, if you've spent time in the Bay area, maybe you've heard of how rents have more than trippled in the last few years?
The H1-B program is designed for abuse. It was designed by politicians.
H1-B was designed to expand the labor pool and thus lower costs for corporations, while the working stiff still has to compete with third world labor.
Handjobs for corporations are unpopular when conglomerates are sitting on mountains of cash while real unemployment remains high. So, expanding the H1-Facscist program will be postponed until after the midterms, so Democrats running for office wont have to answer pesky questions about why we should be importing more workers when so many Americans are out of work.
How is finding the location of a state trooper's radio the same thing as listening in on the trooper's cell phone conversation with her husband? Apples and oranges.
Isn't it easier to just drive carefully, refrain from exceeding the posted speed limit by more than 5-10mp
Speed limits are rarely set by how fast you can drive at a safe speed on a given road, rather than arbitrary zoning.
But even that is following the canard that the only people wanting to know where the cops are are those looking to break the law. In the age of DWB, asset forfeiture, checkpoints, revenue generation, and cops being free to murder innocent people with impunity, that's obnoxiously naive.
Men are privileged and any time you provide evidence proving otherwise that's actually just proof that men are so privileged their privilege "backfires" and hurts them.
And by that point you've been tagged as a 'mansplainer'. If you insist on continuing to have your own opinion, you must be an MRA.
It's impossible for anything, no matter how bad it is, to not be male privilege.
Like watching black cops beat up or harass black pedestrians and yet it's still a case of White Privilege.
NSA is forbidden from monitoring domestic persons in the EO 12333 that founded it. Domestic warrantless spying is still further forbidden by FISA laws and the 4th Amendment. Ergo cold fjord is still a goosestepping fool.
They wouldn't be committing felonies as that would require a violation of law rather than violations of constitutional restrictions against government.
FISA lays out those felonies: 5 years in prison and a $10,000 fine for each offense. Right off the top that's going to mean prison sentences measured in thousands of years - for each NSA worker - as well as billions in fines.
You can blame other parts of the federal government somewhat, but blaming Congress for bad laws is always precisely the right thing to do.
Always sounds like defection. Let's not put pressure on one person and his appointee (POTUS and AG), let's pressure 485 instead because it's so much easier! Then there's the practical aspect of it: the Espionage Act was passed in 1917. What's going to be easier: pressuring those 485 people to repeal the Act - and override George Obama's inevitable veto - or pressure the AG to use his prosecutor discretion to start enforcing the laws against banks and stop persecuting whistleblowers?
and it's clear that the Democrats are going to keep demanding that the government force low-skilled workers out of work... sorry, increase the minimum wage
All businesses always minimize their payroll. If McDonalds needs 12 people to run a shift, they will hire 12 people to run a shift, whether the minimum wage is 25 dollars or 25 cents an hour.
You could pay these people a quarter an hour in company scrip and the company would still replace some employees with automation if it would save them a nickel.
Maybe because society (in the US, anyway) spends a lot of time, directly and indirectly, telling women they aren't cut out for this kind of work and should focus on being "hot" and be quiet?
On some other planet where you don't see governments and schools pushing the "empowerment" of girls, nevermind that girls are more likely to graduate from college and have always graduated high school at higher rates? Where girls are overdiagnosed with ADHD and overmedicated instead of boys?
Women get pushed around a lot in our culture, overtly and covertly
By other women.
I got raised by smart, educated, strong-willed women (mom, aunts, great aunts, godmother) who had professional lives in the 50s and 60s when that was rare.
As those aunts, great aunts and godmothers what it was like to be drafted into Korea or Vietnam.
Speaking of perpetuating lies, most men behind on child support are in arrears because they cannot afford to pay, not because they don't want to. Non-custodial women are much fewer in number, but have more in arrears, percentage wise, than non-custodial fathers do. Yet no one calls them "lying dead-beat moms" when they cannot make the payments.
You are talking the same position as the old guild members, fighting to keep their privileged position as more productive factories raise productivity and living standards for everybody.
Except when you need such a guild to push back against a government increasing the size of the labor pool without increasing the number of jobs open to said labor pool. Because the real purpose is to boost corporate profits - see the H1B visa program.
I'm a big fan of both red light and speed cameras, so long as it's clear that the goal, and the only goal, is to improve traffic safety by getting people to abide by speed limits
On some planet where speed limits have some vague relation to how fast you can actually drive at a safe speed? Parts of Canada are notorious for having speed limits 30 kph or more under where they should be. And red light cameras are invariably set up not at intersections with a higher accident rate, but at busy intersections with short yellow light times.
The point of these cameras isn't increasing safety, but increasing revenue for the city and the company collecting the fees. Which is why Chicago haz a sad.
Of course there is a legal process, it says right in there
That "legal process" is for you to prove your innocence to get your shit back, not for the state to prove your guilt to take it away. It's a complete inversion of the Takings clause and the concept of innocent-until-proven-guilty.
But if it's anything else, taxes are so great. "Pay your share!"
There's another term for self-important elitists paying their share of taxes: guillotine insurance.
Despite the fact that the government doing the taxing is just going to use those resources against you in the form of militarized police, warrantless wiretaps, and drone surveillance.
Despite the fact that the largest post-Vietnam increases in war spending happened after Reagan's budget busting tax cuts and then again after Bush II's budget busting tax cuts. Anyone who thinks a tax cut is going to somehow reign in the Pentagon or the NSA needs to Google "deficit spending".
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Oh, so we're free to buy goods and housing at third world prices? All the CEO's that make more than $500k a year have been fired and replaced with MBA's from India? No and no you say? Then it sounds like the "global economy" is still really a "capitalist crock of shit".
What are you smoking?
And you could cut that in half and it would still seem to be a vast sum to supporting a family on $30,000 a year as an auto mechanic. This defense of companies that have more money than God is bizarre, and a complete non-response to the issues of wage suppression the business talk of "free markets" going out the window the second they benefit the working class.
And in the 30's, baseball players 'had jobs most America could only dream of'. Does nothing to change the fact that they were paid far less than they were worth due to anti-competitive practices from team owners.
Increasing the size of the labor pool = reduced "prevailing wages". It matters not a whit that the Indian programmer is getting $40k a year, same as his American counterpart in the next cube, if the American's wage would be $48k a year without H1B labor.
Reverse is true. Even if you aren't a member of a union, you benefit from a union forcing employers to pay more wages and benefits in your industry. But 'Murricans like yourself would prefer to make less money and be more expendable rather than pay fifty bucks a month in dues.
It's like not wanting to pay taxes for public roads while at the same time enjoying the benefits they provide.
Did reality run over your cat when you were five? I know you two haven't been on speaking terms for a while, but this is ridiculous.
But if the wage suppression resulting from H1B results in a 30% reduction in the prevailing wage, it's still worth it for them. It's like the banks that get fined a few hundred million for practices that made them billions in profits - they actually have an incentive to go on abusing the system.
A very well written non-response to the issue of wage suppression. As if everyone is free to pull up stakes and move, and there will be a nice six figure job waiting for you at the end of said move. And, if you've spent time in the Bay area, maybe you've heard of how rents have more than trippled in the last few years?
H1-B was designed to expand the labor pool and thus lower costs for corporations, while the working stiff still has to compete with third world labor.
Handjobs for corporations are unpopular when conglomerates are sitting on mountains of cash while real unemployment remains high. So, expanding the H1-Facscist program will be postponed until after the midterms, so Democrats running for office wont have to answer pesky questions about why we should be importing more workers when so many Americans are out of work.
Why didn't you simply say "I'm a serf in favor of feudalism" and save yourself a few dozen self-centered words?
Needed to counteract the police are saints fascists.
How is finding the location of a state trooper's radio the same thing as listening in on the trooper's cell phone conversation with her husband? Apples and oranges.
Speed limits are rarely set by how fast you can drive at a safe speed on a given road, rather than arbitrary zoning.
But even that is following the canard that the only people wanting to know where the cops are are those looking to break the law. In the age of DWB, asset forfeiture, checkpoints, revenue generation, and cops being free to murder innocent people with impunity, that's obnoxiously naive.
And by that point you've been tagged as a 'mansplainer'. If you insist on continuing to have your own opinion, you must be an MRA.
Like watching black cops beat up or harass black pedestrians and yet it's still a case of White Privilege.
Let's try that again, this time with reality.
NSA is forbidden from monitoring domestic persons in the EO 12333 that founded it.
Domestic warrantless spying is still further forbidden by FISA laws and the 4th Amendment.
Ergo cold fjord is still a goosestepping fool.
FISA lays out those felonies: 5 years in prison and a $10,000 fine for each offense. Right off the top that's going to mean prison sentences measured in thousands of years - for each NSA worker - as well as billions in fines.
Always sounds like defection. Let's not put pressure on one person and his appointee (POTUS and AG), let's pressure 485 instead because it's so much easier! Then there's the practical aspect of it: the Espionage Act was passed in 1917. What's going to be easier: pressuring those 485 people to repeal the Act - and override George Obama's inevitable veto - or pressure the AG to use his prosecutor discretion to start enforcing the laws against banks and stop persecuting whistleblowers?
All businesses always minimize their payroll. If McDonalds needs 12 people to run a shift, they will hire 12 people to run a shift, whether the minimum wage is 25 dollars or 25 cents an hour.
You could pay these people a quarter an hour in company scrip and the company would still replace some employees with automation if it would save them a nickel.
Translation: it's only a societal problem if the gender getting the shit end of the stick is female.
Score: 9.7 in mental gymnastics.
On some other planet where you don't see governments and schools pushing the "empowerment" of girls, nevermind that girls are more likely to graduate from college and have always graduated high school at higher rates? Where girls are overdiagnosed with ADHD and overmedicated instead of boys?
By other women.
As those aunts, great aunts and godmothers what it was like to be drafted into Korea or Vietnam.
Speaking of perpetuating lies, most men behind on child support are in arrears because they cannot afford to pay, not because they don't want to. Non-custodial women are much fewer in number, but have more in arrears, percentage wise, than non-custodial fathers do. Yet no one calls them "lying dead-beat moms" when they cannot make the payments.
#doublestandards
Except when you need such a guild to push back against a government increasing the size of the labor pool without increasing the number of jobs open to said labor pool. Because the real purpose is to boost corporate profits - see the H1B visa program.
On some planet where speed limits have some vague relation to how fast you can actually drive at a safe speed? Parts of Canada are notorious for having speed limits 30 kph or more under where they should be. And red light cameras are invariably set up not at intersections with a higher accident rate, but at busy intersections with short yellow light times.
The point of these cameras isn't increasing safety, but increasing revenue for the city and the company collecting the fees. Which is why Chicago haz a sad.
That "legal process" is for you to prove your innocence to get your shit back, not for the state to prove your guilt to take it away. It's a complete inversion of the Takings clause and the concept of innocent-until-proven-guilty.
Only if you're stuck with a shitty provider, usually a monopoly.
There's another term for self-important elitists paying their share of taxes: guillotine insurance.
Despite the fact that the largest post-Vietnam increases in war spending happened after Reagan's budget busting tax cuts and then again after Bush II's budget busting tax cuts. Anyone who thinks a tax cut is going to somehow reign in the Pentagon or the NSA needs to Google "deficit spending".