<story><title>My Position On The Disney Layoffs</title><url>https://plus.google.com/+KeithBarrett/posts/PWA6BXs7dbS</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Frondo</author><text>No, because you can&amp;#x27;t ship a Burger King job to China.</text></item><item><author>marknutter</author><text>Wouldn&amp;#x27;t raising the minimum was make shipping jobs to China even more attractive?</text></item><item><author>melling</author><text>How do you determine what&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;healthy&amp;quot;?  Millions of Americans are caught in an endless cycle of poverty and we&amp;#x27;re fighting a $15 minimum wage. We&amp;#x27;ve shipped millions of manufacturing jobs to China so it&amp;#x27;s harder to get a good job without a college education. Now we want to reduce the salaries of well-paid jobs by onshoring them.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d say we should take a closer look at what we&amp;#x27;re actually doing.</text></item><item><author>shas3</author><text>Protectionism doesn&amp;#x27;t work. There is wide consensus among economists on comparative advantage [1]. Healthy, non-protectionist immigration policies have been proposed to have similar effects as free trade [2,3].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Comparative_advantage&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Comparative_advantage&lt;/a&gt;
[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.economics.uci.edu&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;micro&amp;#x2F;s07&amp;#x2F;Peri.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.economics.uci.edu&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;micro&amp;#x2F;s07&amp;#x2F;Peri.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
[3] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wsj.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;SB10000872396390443477104577551250082215534&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wsj.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;SB100008723963904434771045775512...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>justizin</author><text>&amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m sharing news about it because this experience has taught me the H-1B Visa program needs to change to protect others in the future.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Anyone who still supports FWD.us and believes that the US doesn&amp;#x27;t produce enough professionals to satisfy the needs of our businesses is straight up, while they are reading this, actually holding a crack pipe to their mouth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xienze</author><text>But you can turn a BK job into a robot job...</text></comment>
<story><title>My Position On The Disney Layoffs</title><url>https://plus.google.com/+KeithBarrett/posts/PWA6BXs7dbS</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Frondo</author><text>No, because you can&amp;#x27;t ship a Burger King job to China.</text></item><item><author>marknutter</author><text>Wouldn&amp;#x27;t raising the minimum was make shipping jobs to China even more attractive?</text></item><item><author>melling</author><text>How do you determine what&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;healthy&amp;quot;?  Millions of Americans are caught in an endless cycle of poverty and we&amp;#x27;re fighting a $15 minimum wage. We&amp;#x27;ve shipped millions of manufacturing jobs to China so it&amp;#x27;s harder to get a good job without a college education. Now we want to reduce the salaries of well-paid jobs by onshoring them.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d say we should take a closer look at what we&amp;#x27;re actually doing.</text></item><item><author>shas3</author><text>Protectionism doesn&amp;#x27;t work. There is wide consensus among economists on comparative advantage [1]. Healthy, non-protectionist immigration policies have been proposed to have similar effects as free trade [2,3].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Comparative_advantage&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Comparative_advantage&lt;/a&gt;
[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.economics.uci.edu&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;micro&amp;#x2F;s07&amp;#x2F;Peri.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.economics.uci.edu&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;micro&amp;#x2F;s07&amp;#x2F;Peri.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
[3] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wsj.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;SB10000872396390443477104577551250082215534&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wsj.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;SB100008723963904434771045775512...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>justizin</author><text>&amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m sharing news about it because this experience has taught me the H-1B Visa program needs to change to protect others in the future.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Anyone who still supports FWD.us and believes that the US doesn&amp;#x27;t produce enough professionals to satisfy the needs of our businesses is straight up, while they are reading this, actually holding a crack pipe to their mouth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johnchristopher</author><text>Not that I agree with the parent but jobs that weren&amp;#x27;t burger king like were actually shipped to China and others.</text></comment>