I could not agree more. Think of it - so many Americans were/are told that the information economy is the future, we need technocrats, information workers, etc., and to go get educated (or in some later cases, people were told to go to coding boot camps) and get a bachelor’s, probably in something like computer science.
And people do that, putting a whole lot of time and effort into that, often coming out carrying a big load of student debt.
Then, absurdly rich oligarch assholes actively work to take AWAY all of those jobs (starting at least as far back as the 80s) and that path to the American dream by constantly finding the cheapest places to do that work. In some cases, the government actually had programs to help companies do this (offshoring). For companies that don’t necessarily want to work with people in other time zones, they set up the H-1B so they could bring cheap exploitable labor here. If any of this sounds familiar, it’s because companies would do this kind of shit for coal mining - bring in a foreign labor force to help set labor upon labor.
I mean: what the actual fuck are we even doing here? And this kind of schizophrenic messaging and policy has dragged on for decades. I get that not everyone is cut out for this kind of work, but if you said this was the future, while hollowing out manufacturing at the same time and saying the information sector was where things are going, and then work to fuck up that, too, well, no fucking wonder a lot of Americans are hopping mad about it.
I could not agree more. Think of it - so many Americans were/are told that the information economy is the future, we need technocrats, information workers, etc., and to go get educated (or in some later cases, people were told to go to coding boot camps) and get a bachelor’s, probably in something like computer science.
And people do that, putting a whole lot of time and effort into that, often coming out carrying a big load of student debt.
Then, absurdly rich oligarch assholes actively work to take AWAY all of those jobs (starting at least as far back as the 80s) and that path to the American dream by constantly finding the cheapest places to do that work. In some cases, the government actually had programs to help companies do this (offshoring). For companies that don’t necessarily want to work with people in other time zones, they set up the H-1B so they could bring cheap exploitable labor here. If any of this sounds familiar, it’s because companies would do this kind of shit for coal mining - bring in a foreign labor force to help set labor upon labor.
I mean: what the actual fuck are we even doing here? And this kind of schizophrenic messaging and policy has dragged on for decades. I get that not everyone is cut out for this kind of work, but if you said this was the future, while hollowing out manufacturing at the same time and saying the information sector was where things are going, and then work to fuck up that, too, well, no fucking wonder a lot of Americans are hopping mad about it.