Who decides "fair market value"? The market. So if I can find someone to take the job for room and board, that becomes fair market value. If I can't find an American willing to take that offer, I would then be free to offer it to anyone else.
Currently, fair market value is constrained, because the pool of avialable workers come from a reasonably similar background and earnings expectations. By opening up the job pool world-wide, "fair market value" in our country would drop like a stone. You make what you make because everyone else in the available job pool is looking for a similar lifestyle to go with that job. Someone in Ames, Iowa is making a lot less per year than you, but probably lives a similar life. If they moved to DC, they couldn't maintain their existing lifestyle on that wage, and would require more. The fair market value in DC is higher than in Ames, because it is more expensive to live a simiar lifestyle there. People in other countries do not have the same expectations. Living in a house. Having some time off. Running water. A safe (for America) neighborhood. The chance to own your own home. Not everyone on earth aspires to such things. Or ever expects to have them. I can find a dozen people to do your job who would move here in an instant and take one fifth of your current salary. They are willing to live in a house with 20 other people. They are willing to work 60, 80, 100 hour weeks. They will probably return to where they came from after a while, and consider themselves rich. There is no way you could compete against them on basis of wage, unless you accepted the same lifestyle. This is true of the job that every single person you met today. This would not bother the top 1 percent. They would love this state of affairs. It would finally turn America back into a true oligarchy. On 4/12/06, Loathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree with him on that. > > But I don't make minimum wage, do you? > > I make a fair market value. I'm an American, therefore since I am available > they would be forced to go to the Americans first. With a fair market value > offered. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:204043 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
