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> Maybe we don't send work offshore to lower cost countries to take advantage of wages lower than ours.

it's not like lowering the minimum wage would change this much - if the cost of living is an order of magnitude lower in a third-world country, the labour costs are going to be an order of magnitude lower too




Sure, but it happens in increments however small you want to make it -- to some subset of jobs at every ratchet of the bar.




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