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bluecheese452yesterday at 7:19 PM1 replyview on HN

If my job is shipped to India today why would I care that twenty years later the boss is Indian instead of American?


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echelonyesterday at 7:27 PM

> If my job is shipped to India today

Immigration isn't "shipping the job to India". It's bringing the labor here and contributing to our economy. This might have a suppressive force on wages, but it lifts the overall economy and creates more opportunity and demand.

Offshoring is permanent loss. It causes whatever jobs and industry are still here to atrophy and die. The overall economy weakens. Your outlook in retirement will be bleaker.

If you have to pick between the two, it's obvious which one to pick.

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