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gwbas1c • today at 3:44 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

Which begs the question: What's better for the US economy?

Compared to having someone move to the US, does hiring a remote worker help or hinder the US economy?


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m000 • today at 3:58 PM

People need to stop asking what's better for the "economy" and start asking what's better for themselves. If the two don't align, it should be tough luck for the "economy", not the people.

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JuniperMesos • today at 5:18 PM

Depends a lot on how that remote worker's children vote.

dfxm12 • today at 3:56 PM

Probably not a simple question or answer on the face of it, but it's really not worth looking at this action in such a narrow lens, because this is not happening in a vacuum. Instead, we should look at it through the overall context of all of this admin's immigration policies, which have been bad for the US economy.

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/new-aclu-afl-cio-report-...

https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2026/05/12/g-s1-12...