Capitalists have responded to this by going to working class people and offering them higher wages and better working conditions. Those unconscionable bastards!pic.twitter.com/LU2DKT1JOQ
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Capitalists have responded to this by going to working class people and offering them higher wages and better working conditions. Those unconscionable bastards!pic.twitter.com/LU2DKT1JOQ
The construction industry has long-since decided in the US that it doesn’t want to pay for staffing/market mismatch risk. Instead, it keeps permanent staffing low and hires through subcontractors. This keeps cost low during lulls. That was a choice. The bill now due.
That isn’t me even having schadenfreude that is just the capitalist in me having aesthetic distaste for crying in capitalism. There’s a way to lock in labor cheap in future years. We call it “employment.” It is a very easy technology to execute on.
If you choose to have high-resolution labor costs because you want to capture the efficiency gains of never having idle workers and never having a mismatch in apprentices and experts then you don’t get to complain about spot prices for experts during boom times.
> are able to hire less of it than they want This is the part that always gets me. I know what they're doing and I still fall for it. What kind of mental voodoo is this?
Hence, Silicon Valley lobbying hard for open immigration-bringing in code serfs from overseas lowers wages across the board, not only for lower level American developers, but also for highly skilled ones.
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