{"id":23957,"date":"2020-12-14T13:10:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T18:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=23957"},"modified":"2020-12-14T13:10:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T18:10:23","slug":"google-ironic-doodle-shows-ignorance-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/12\/14\/google-ironic-doodle-shows-ignorance-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Doodles While U.S. Workers Suffer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Sir William Arthur Lewis was honored on Google\u2019s Dec. 10 webpage. Given the Nobel Prize-winning British economist\u2019s position on immigration and wages, that day\u2019s \u201cGoogle Doodle\u201d<\/a> was a richly ironic icon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In his 1954 treatise<\/a>, \u201cDevelopment with Unlimited Supplies of Labour,\u201d Lewis wrote, \u201cIf there were free immigration from India and China to the U.S.A., the wage level of the U.S.A. would certainly be pulled down towards the Indian and Chinese levels.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Mass\nimmigration of unskilled labour might \u2026 raise output per head but its effect\nwould be to keep wages in all countries near the subsistence level of the\npoorest countries.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lewis\ndid not define \u201cmass immigration,\u201d but he surely would have recognized it\ntoday, nearly 30 years after his death. Global corporations\u2019 use of imported\nlabor — unskilled and skilled \u2013 has grown far beyond anything Lewis witnessed\nin his lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Google CEO Sundar Pichai<\/a>, himself an immigrant, boasts that “immigration has contributed immensely to America’s economic success, making it a global leader in tech, and also Google the company it is today.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n But while applauding its foreign imports, Big Tech fights Trump administration rules to raise prevailing wages<\/a> of that workforce. Lewis foresaw<\/a> such reaction, noting that the fruits of high migration \u201cflow disproportionately to business owners because the deep pool of excess labour ensures wages stay low.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n