Do No Evil?
Google’s slogan from the very start has been “Do no evil”. Yet the company has agreed to censor the searches of mainland Chinese and in their latest move, are trying to influence US migrant worker policy.
Google has been forced to turn down some job applications of foreign skilled workers because of what they say are “artifically low caps” on the number of visas allowing skilled migrants to work in the US on a temporary basis.
What Google doesn’t say is that they want to pay less than the going wage for the types of skills they wish to hire. This, admittedly, is my assumption because there are lots of skilled software engineers and computer programmers available for hire in todays job market. So it seems a safe assumption.
We don’t need more migrant workers, skilled or unskilled, permanent or temporary. We need our corporations to get their heads out of Global and back to Local. These people can’t seem to understand that bringing the wages of US workers down to the same level as Hondurans and Malaysians will wreck their companies when we can no longer afford to buy their products.
Google could easily set up training programs for future employees, here in the US. Lots of other companies do this but not Google. Migrant temps are a lot cheaper, so they say to Hell with the Americans who want jobs. Because we have those visa caps, companies like Google have no choice but to hire Americans and pay a decent wage.
Great Britain is having growing distress pains over exactly this problem. Their government wants to keep bringing in more lower class workers, who then compete with the native population for their jobs and housing, with the result that they now have a severe shortage of housing and jobs, both. We haven’t felt this as much simply because of our size, but as more illegals pour in over our unprotected borders, it is having its effect.
Now Google wants to add to the cumulative overload. Do no evil? They need to change their slogan.
June 20th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
I’ve sworn off Google many times, because of their Left, Progressive, Anti-American stance. But they are so darn good, I find myself lured back to them time after time. Bad Debbie!
June 20th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Big businessmen have no loyalty to any country. Their only concern is more money. Would it hurt them to pay their employees a fair wage and make slightly less money?
June 20th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
Rastaman,
Too right about the problem you describe in the UK. The lunacy is this:
The Government happily gives welfare payments to millions of home-grown work-shy layabouts, who therefore have no incentive to find work. They can watch daytime TV and drink cheap lager all day yet not have to worry about paying for their accommodation, food, drink, drugs etc. because the Government picks up the bill.
Then, as you’ve pointed out, the Government imports a load of Eastern Europeans to do the jobs that the indigenous population has no incentive or desire to do. It’s got so bad that in some areas propective workers must speak Polish to be considered for a job …
… in the UK …
… where English was invented.
Don’t believe me? See http://bristol.gumtree.com/jobs/polish and look at the listings for 23rd May.
And of course the imported workers need houses so we have to build on our green fields.
It’s madness yet only those who actually have the power to stop it – i.e. the Government – seem unaware of it.
June 20th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
More:
It’s worse than I thought. Some UK employers go further than just requesting Polish language skills. They want to employ Polish workers only – which I believe is illegal on the grounds of discrimination. See:
http://bristol.gumtree.com/bristol/38/8728438.html
June 20th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
It is illogical. We are continually told in the UK there is a demand for these workers and yet:
A recent study puts the number of unemployed, taking into account all those on welfare and sickness benefits who could work, as nearly 3m
When I go to shops/bars/restaurants I come across East European accents continually. Doing jobs British don’t want? The problem is that three years back I went to similar or sometimes the same places and had no problem getting served. Come to that I do not recall any shortage of taxi drivers or petriol station managers in the 60s before they became almost exclusively Asian occupations.
Sure it must be the same in the States. The fact is that unskilled migrants, even when they are decent enough, simply expand the total economy without in any way increasing our per capita standard of living. As Watling says, there is an adverse impact on our quality of life and environment through extra housing, overcrowded roads and stretched infrastucture.
June 21st, 2007 at 11:52 pm
Thats not true about the housing crisis. The latter has come about because of ludicrous prices, huge buy ups with fat cat city bonuses and people buying up property in buy-to-lets to make a fast buck. The government imports noone. People come here because they are willing to work hard and the work is there for the taking. And thank god too – London is better off for it. Who wants some snotty disinterested twitty school leaver with an attitude when a company can employ eager to work Poles and other euros.