You're right. I wrote this post in anger and frustration because I don't like how things are heading. Let me try and clear things up.
> - False equivalence between blue collar and white collar outsourcing -- what makes you think knowledge work isn't substantially different from blue collar work for them to be apples and oranges?
I'm not suggesting that blue collar and white collar work is similar, but that, at the end of the day, these are livelihoods we're talking about. Remote work will eventually lead to outsourcing (if it is possible).
Plenty of workers are saying, "give us WFH - it works" and if this is true, I can't see why those jobs wouldn't get shipped off ASAP. Every job outsourced is a damn shame, but as far as the media is telling me, I'm now supposed to start feeling sorry for white collar but not blue collar outsourcing? This is blatant bias.
> Putting words in someone else's mouth -- no one here ragged on Trump voters who "didn't see any other way out" -- you perceived that and projected it into a space inappropriately. This is a giant forum with a variety of people and political opinions. Don't flatten that into a single viewpoint and expect to not get heat for it.
Not on this forum, no, but go pick up any newspaper and you'll see plenty of evidence of this. I would go as far as to say, the primary reason Trump was elected was due to his strong anti-China/anti-outsourcing stance. That makes this whole situation political.
> - Misunderstanding of labor pricing. Employers pay the minimum they can, but saying "salaries are high right now because of concentration of talent" misses the network effect of concentration of talent. If you don't understand the nonlinear effect of that, I think it is a little bit misguided to suggest that others do not understand "basic economics".
I do understand this, but remote working to begin with, is predicated on the axiom that being in the same, shared physical space, isn't essential. If that's true, why would companies continue to overpay (from their PoV) workers in these tech hubs (at least long term)
> - False equivalence between blue collar and white collar outsourcing -- what makes you think knowledge work isn't substantially different from blue collar work for them to be apples and oranges?
I'm not suggesting that blue collar and white collar work is similar, but that, at the end of the day, these are livelihoods we're talking about. Remote work will eventually lead to outsourcing (if it is possible).
Plenty of workers are saying, "give us WFH - it works" and if this is true, I can't see why those jobs wouldn't get shipped off ASAP. Every job outsourced is a damn shame, but as far as the media is telling me, I'm now supposed to start feeling sorry for white collar but not blue collar outsourcing? This is blatant bias.
> Putting words in someone else's mouth -- no one here ragged on Trump voters who "didn't see any other way out" -- you perceived that and projected it into a space inappropriately. This is a giant forum with a variety of people and political opinions. Don't flatten that into a single viewpoint and expect to not get heat for it.
Not on this forum, no, but go pick up any newspaper and you'll see plenty of evidence of this. I would go as far as to say, the primary reason Trump was elected was due to his strong anti-China/anti-outsourcing stance. That makes this whole situation political.
> - Misunderstanding of labor pricing. Employers pay the minimum they can, but saying "salaries are high right now because of concentration of talent" misses the network effect of concentration of talent. If you don't understand the nonlinear effect of that, I think it is a little bit misguided to suggest that others do not understand "basic economics".
I do understand this, but remote working to begin with, is predicated on the axiom that being in the same, shared physical space, isn't essential. If that's true, why would companies continue to overpay (from their PoV) workers in these tech hubs (at least long term)