> Remote workers in India don't compete for housing, energy, health care, education, and food

You’re talking about an immigrant population that is notably net tax paying, better educated and less unemployed than population.

As for your list: housing is a political choice; residential energy use is increasingly a rounding error; nationally, we’re closing hospitals and schools more than finding them constrained; and we’re a major food (and energy) exporter.

If a mansion is surrounded by a slum is society better off? In India the answer is yes but in america we see slums as a failure.

> If a mansion is surrounded by a slum is society better off?

Who is in the mansion and who is in the slum?

Irrelevant

The government exists for the general welfare and and economic system that subsidizes idleness because the disingenuous say "look over there, its a net positive" while ignoring the externalized cost borne by the taxpayer is just theft from the taxpayer.

> Irrelevant

You made an analogy!

> system that subsidizes idleness

You’ve genuinely lost me. What does this have to do with this thread?

Displacement is a taxpayer funded externality. Companies are not entitled to taxpayer dollars just because theyre too cheap to hire american.

In America we see homeless zombies running around the richest neighborhoods. Thats the definition of success here.