The Manufactured Crisis: How Society Is Willingly Tying Its Own Noose
You know me mostly from my analysis on politics, geopolitics, finance and economy. But predictions, or more broadly speaking, forecasting does not end there. We live in a world where economic, political and cultural issues weave together creating a complex web of local and global events. As in The Butterfly...
Nov 22, 2024-2
You know me mostly from my analysis on politics, geopolitics, finance and economy. But predictions, or more broadly speaking, forecasting does not end there. We live in a world where economic, political and cultural issues weave together creating a complex web of local and global events. As in The Butterfly Effect, every action, both big and small influences everything else. Each decision we make creates a fork. As individuals, with each action we put a small brick in the collective direction of society.
I made the text quite general, but focused on the US in my examples - in the US you cannot hire non-US citizens even for remote positions so this argument does not really apply here. I meant specifically doing cost of living arbitrage in a given country. Maybe that was not clear enough in the essay, my bad then.
I also have to disagree on the irrelevance argument - many sales jobs, high-finance jobs (given as examples they involve quite a lot of contact with external parties) can easily be done remotely with work trips to clients if needed and they will be there for quite a long time before we can replace... (read more)