Instead of importing foreigners to work here, why not export Americans to work?

[GuyOnInternet]

Instead of using H1B and offshore, couldn't American companies open their IT shops overseas and populate them with American workers to save money? If they are overseas, they should be able to sign away things like minimum wage and labor laws. American workers are not lazy. Government restrictions are hindering us. We can work 100 hours a week. We only need enough money to live in a country with a lower cost of living. It is currently very difficult for Americans to relocate to other countries, especially to become a citizen of a third world country.

 

[Dante]

whatever drugs this one is on -- I WANT SOME!

Americans are not going to move overseas to get cheap jobs and you'd probably SEND them there too

 

[TNHarley]

Instead of using H1B and offshore, couldn't American companies open their IT shops overseas and populate them with American workers to save money? If they are overseas, they should be able to sign away things like minimum wage and labor laws. American workers are not lazy. Government restrictions are hindering us. We can work 100 hours a week. We only need enough money to live in a country with a lower cost of living. It is currently very difficult for Americans to relocate to other countries, especially to become a citizen of a third world country.

So you think americans are going to move to a third world shithole to make little to nothing? lolz

 

[GuyOnInternet]

I worked for 9 dollars a day doing heavy warehouse work in the Philippines until someone made a stink about it. I got in some of the best shape of my life too. I would rather live there as a software developer making 20,000 dollars a year than in America making 135,000 dollars a year.

 

[1srelluc]

So now we need to go over there and clean up the mess the H1Bs made of things here?