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Restaurant in NYC offshores cashier job to Philippines so they can pay below minimum wage ($3/hr in Philippines)
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Should apply to that as well if they're interacting with the US market. All the way through subcontractors to the end employee. No hiding behind contracting local companies.
i don't like outsourcing either, but realistically the machine of capitalism isn't going to allow you to be rid of it in its entirety
honestly i don't even know if getting rid of multinational organisations is on the whole a good thing, and that's the only way i can see of getting rid of outsourcing
Outsourcing entirely being gone isn't realistic... But there's a huge difference between moving an entire team of say developers to India and having a worker teleconference in to be a cashier. Anyone directly interacting with a customer or end user in any capacity should be paid the same as a local employee in the location they're "working".
A Telecashier is fucking stupid and ridiculous.
Remember when we learned that Amazon's "just put it in your cart to buy" algorithm was really just a bunch of people in India watching you shop on the store surveillance system? That was, like 3 months ago maybe??
yesssssss, but i don't know how you'd make a legal distinction between those two
then again i'm not a law talking guy so what do i know
Who said anything about that? We're just talking about putting tariffs on outsourced labor to correct for negative externalities.