said by oliphant 
: said by RadioDoc : And people willing to work for nothing, and local governments willing to give them tax breaks to employ people at minimum wage. Fiber is just the cover story...
Yeah, probably would have been better to build the call center in India and leave those people unemployed.
What employees seem to forget is while they think they're underpaid and God's gift to their employer, in reality they're only worth in pay what it costs to replace them. If they get minimum wage it's only because they can be easily replaced by someone else at minimum wage. And when unions and the like try to artificially inflate those 'fair' wages, they just end up sending those jobs overseas. Of course people will flame me for point out the obvious, but if they ran their own business they would run it exactly the same.
First off I do run my own business. Three of them in fact. If employees make me money I hire them. If they don't they're gone. Simple Economics 101. If I can get incentives to locate in an area which gains me a significant short-term windfall I would consider it, especially when there is no downside of leaving the 
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