Reply #46: Exactly, if we could just go both places, wages would equalize

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Take India. If Indians can come to the US whenever they want for any job and Americans can go to India on the same basis, the wages equalize and so everyone stays home because it's home.

The capitalist class doesn't want that. They want to play the low wage workers against the higher wage workers. And they know it is more expensive to live in the US (generally speaking). So they keep US wages down with the threat of outsourcing.

This is why H-1b haters are barking up the wrong tree (or really just xenophobes in disguise). They should be trying to be allies to the Indians and others to get both governments to back off on the location restrictions for workers.