Remote workers are either US citizens or green card holders, which means subject to US taxes regardless of where they live, or contractors not subject to employment laws or taxes. At scale offshoring generally means moving entire factories or business units to countries with cheaper labor costs and/or more lax regulations. I look at that trend like any other historical economic trend: it creates both winners and losers.
The US government ceased to represent the American people in favor of corporations and the wealthy some time ago. That’s also the norm for governments, historically. Attempts to change that get called socialism and dismissed in America. It’s too late for isolationism, but I agree that corporations have a responsibility to balance the effects of offshoring and imports so America doesn’t get hollowed out. You can see how that has worked out.
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Remote workers are either US citizens or green card holders, which means subject to US taxes regardless of where they live, or contractors not subject to employment laws or taxes. At scale offshoring generally means moving entire factories or business units to countries with cheaper labor costs and/or more lax regulations. I look at that trend like any other historical economic trend: it creates both winners and losers.
The US government ceased to represent the American people in favor of corporations and the wealthy some time ago. That’s also the norm for governments, historically. Attempts to change that get called socialism and dismissed in America. It’s too late for isolationism, but I agree that corporations have a responsibility to balance the effects of offshoring and imports so America doesn’t get hollowed out. You can see how that has worked out.
Clearly there is not that responsibility. Also, a lot of remote workers are not us citizens or authorized to work physically in the us.
True, but that’s not illegal.
Right. That was never disputed. It’s questionable if that’s the best for the us citizen.