Everywhere I look the downturn is because of “outsourcing”, “India taking our jobs!!”, “cheap overseas labor” and never, never ever porky’s fault. It’s the dirty immigrant labor, not the guys who talk about having “properties”. I’ve always seen this shit floating around in white collar jobs as long as I’ve been working but it’s been really amped up the last few weeks. I am not surprised that people are just this racist on their own but at least some of it feels very manufactured.

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[–] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I think anti-WFH is a conspiracy to help keep Westoid power artificially inflated

if you let everyone WFH it suddenly makes zero sense to employ ANY WESTOID because you can just replace every job with WFHers from Philippines, Cambodia, India, etc

every service would be outsourced, and every manufacturing job was already outsourced. there just literally wouldn't be a westoid economy anymore (like even less of one than there is now)

in addition to that, all the industries that depend on the charade of forcing people into the office would basically stop existing: fast food, restaurants, automakers, landlords, etc. The economy would consist solely of food healthcare and other resource extractions (mining, timber) and even those are largely done by immigrants who are physically here

[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is anecdotal but I imagine it's indicative of a larger trend, but I have friends who work for WFH-only tech firms that are doing exactly this, they've realised that they can pay Latin American software folks like a third of US salaries and who perform the same job just as well. The time zone is the same, and many are fluent in English. Only possible because they're a WFH-only company though.

[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Yup, IBM contracts a lot of people from Costa Rica and good for them, but they are still overworked quite a bit. And their white manager berates them in front of their clients.