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ELI5: How can "foreign workers" be cheaper for corporations like Disney to employ? (Can/US) Minimum wage, labour laws, etc. don't decrease based on the worker's nationality, so why?
gpt
A few reasons:

1) Lower wages. Sure you can't charge below minimum wage, but local workers have this tendency to want more than minimum wage, while people from poorer countries are more likely to be happy(er) with minimum wage

2) Benefits. Native workers are more likely to want/demand benefits: full-time work, health care, etc. Foreign workers, again less so.

There's plenty of other reasons too.


And with the recent Disney news, the workers being replaced weren't minimum wage workers: they were tech workers. Native tech workers often expect $60-80 K/year as a minimum, and experienced tech workers are often payed well over $100K/year, plus benefits in the form of insurance, time off, etc. For those jobs, paying foreign workers $40K/year as a starting rate is a huge savings, and still more than companies in India are likely to pay; mostly because it costs a lot less to live in India.