• halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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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.

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      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

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        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.

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          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??

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          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

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        but realistically the machine of capitalism isn’t going to allow you to be rid of it in its entirety

        Who said anything about that? We’re just talking about putting tariffs on outsourced labor to correct for negative externalities.