From some potential immigrants' POV this is not a rounding error. If they had previously weighed the benefits against the cost of leaving, there were likely some very close to the margin at B/C =1. (C includes loss of family, social, cultural connections, fitting in in new location etc.) What might have been attractive at B is less so at B-600.
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Free immigration is like free health care: demand is infinite and requires some form of copayment to deter unnecessary use. Japan's "copayment" will be an interesting experiment in how much value people place on the intangibles of staying behind.
The fact that she found work so quickly and easily suggests this was a skill position that locals had not filled. So providing her a visa was a mutually beneficial scenario. This is an easy “immigration” example to support (although it’s not technically immigration yet since they do not appear to have permanent legal status).
Salamat po for this interesting insights! Nurse assistants in Germany would make triple her Yen-pay, but A2-level of German (ie advanced beginners) is obligatory. Which is why we have too few of them.
Why do I question if that's LEGAL work and instead they are working on a non-work visa. I find Americans, for all their complaints about "stealing jobs" and "illegal employment", tend to do that routinely when they live in other countries on non-work visa. And yes remote work is illegal too and yes that means checking your work email while on vacation.
Not disagreeing with your overall jist, nor theirs, but likewise let's not sugarcoat they are probably criminals.
Why would you assume it's a non-work visa? I find that unlikely. Fees are usually much lower for non-work visas. Regardless, I find it strange you would just assume the worst of a fellow human being trying to tell you their story.
Because residence visa's don't automatically grant the right to work and work visas for most of the world are notorious hard to get outside a few exceptions mostly in places you don't want to live. For example, even the lowest skilled critical shortage of local skills visa in Japan, i.e. a office cleaner or medical assistant to name a few, require passing a test to show you are proficient in Japanese, isn't renewable hence you have to leave after it expires regardless, is unaccompanied (no family allowed), has to be sponsored prior to granted (i.e. employment contract), can only be granted OUTSDIE Japan and a resident visa can't be transformed into a work visa from within the country, AND they have to pay you above market wage for a local Japanese person (hence it's not a cost saving measure but literally as labor shortage measure). And other work visa higher up are even more difficult from things like requiring over a decade of schooling, being a clergy member, being a CEO, etc.
Whereas non-working residency visas are generally not that hard to get as a Westerner given sufficient assets, age, etc hence there is a giant illegal labor market both locally and remotely, i.e. the YouTuber on a tourist visa, the American teleworker, etc.
And I'm not assuming the "worst", I'm assuming reality. I've been an ex-pat most of my life and there is nobody out there that has less respect for visa labor laws in other countries than an American, or their Aussie/Brit compatriots. We have near universal travel and local governments that look the other way because we tend to be rich, white, and productive along with embassies that make a big stink.
So ask yourself this, our Filipino "nurse", how exactly did she get a work visa since Japanese law requires you to have a employment contract BEFORE entering the country and BEFORE applying for the visa even though "She applied to all these hospitals after arrival". That same work visa REQUIRES her to speak Japanese even though "no Japanese". That same work vias REQUIRES her to get paid above the market wage for a native Japanese in the same job, do you HONESTLY think a native Japanese nursing assistant is making US$8.50 an hour? I can some land in Florida to sell you too.
Likewise you really think all those "foreign" content creators and road warrior teleworkers are getting work visa? When you travel on vacation, are you getting a work visa before you check your corporate email while on holiday or write (more towards Bryan) a substack most which generates income?
Illegal foreigner work is the norm in most of the world hence why would NOT assume that especially given the story that person presented suggests illegality every way you look at it.
I tend to assume ill on the part of random fellow human beings, particularly those trying to tell me their story. Just projection, I guess. I'm a rotten one, I admit.
I don't assume ill (maleficent), just that they are storytelling in the traditional sense it's a story, not facts, i.e. something I learned in my colored life is to respect the old idiom "it's your story, you can tell it how you want, I just don't have to believe you". But generally since people don't tend to brag about criminality in the company I assume Bryan keeps, I tend to believe it when they tell me they are criminals.
Likewise I tend to treat people as I believe them regardless because respect can do funny things to a person, i.e. if you tell me you are going to stab me I'll respect that, even if I think you are completely full of it, because even though you weren't going too and it was a empty threat, you might feel the need to prove me wrong to not lose face / ego and in fact stab me if call you out on it. That extends to pretty much anything anyone tells me including what's the weather like or what time is it. I'll take you at your story until proven otherwise or it costs me more to not call you out. Otherwise I don't really care if you tell me you were the CEO of Goldman Sachs when you were twenty-three thirty years ago, it doesn't hurt me to genuinely treat you as if I believe you.
> I’ll include two wonderful pictures of us at the end of this email.
Some age gap they have there!
From some potential immigrants' POV this is not a rounding error. If they had previously weighed the benefits against the cost of leaving, there were likely some very close to the margin at B/C =1. (C includes loss of family, social, cultural connections, fitting in in new location etc.) What might have been attractive at B is less so at B-600.
:
Free immigration is like free health care: demand is infinite and requires some form of copayment to deter unnecessary use. Japan's "copayment" will be an interesting experiment in how much value people place on the intangibles of staying behind.
The fact that she found work so quickly and easily suggests this was a skill position that locals had not filled. So providing her a visa was a mutually beneficial scenario. This is an easy “immigration” example to support (although it’s not technically immigration yet since they do not appear to have permanent legal status).
Salamat po for this interesting insights! Nurse assistants in Germany would make triple her Yen-pay, but A2-level of German (ie advanced beginners) is obligatory. Which is why we have too few of them.
Salamat po? Hochdeutsch?
Tagalog aka Filipino. Nicht alle Deutschen sind nur bi-lingual. Ingat.
Why do I question if that's LEGAL work and instead they are working on a non-work visa. I find Americans, for all their complaints about "stealing jobs" and "illegal employment", tend to do that routinely when they live in other countries on non-work visa. And yes remote work is illegal too and yes that means checking your work email while on vacation.
Not disagreeing with your overall jist, nor theirs, but likewise let's not sugarcoat they are probably criminals.
Why would you assume it's a non-work visa? I find that unlikely. Fees are usually much lower for non-work visas. Regardless, I find it strange you would just assume the worst of a fellow human being trying to tell you their story.
Because residence visa's don't automatically grant the right to work and work visas for most of the world are notorious hard to get outside a few exceptions mostly in places you don't want to live. For example, even the lowest skilled critical shortage of local skills visa in Japan, i.e. a office cleaner or medical assistant to name a few, require passing a test to show you are proficient in Japanese, isn't renewable hence you have to leave after it expires regardless, is unaccompanied (no family allowed), has to be sponsored prior to granted (i.e. employment contract), can only be granted OUTSDIE Japan and a resident visa can't be transformed into a work visa from within the country, AND they have to pay you above market wage for a local Japanese person (hence it's not a cost saving measure but literally as labor shortage measure). And other work visa higher up are even more difficult from things like requiring over a decade of schooling, being a clergy member, being a CEO, etc.
Whereas non-working residency visas are generally not that hard to get as a Westerner given sufficient assets, age, etc hence there is a giant illegal labor market both locally and remotely, i.e. the YouTuber on a tourist visa, the American teleworker, etc.
And I'm not assuming the "worst", I'm assuming reality. I've been an ex-pat most of my life and there is nobody out there that has less respect for visa labor laws in other countries than an American, or their Aussie/Brit compatriots. We have near universal travel and local governments that look the other way because we tend to be rich, white, and productive along with embassies that make a big stink.
So ask yourself this, our Filipino "nurse", how exactly did she get a work visa since Japanese law requires you to have a employment contract BEFORE entering the country and BEFORE applying for the visa even though "She applied to all these hospitals after arrival". That same work visa REQUIRES her to speak Japanese even though "no Japanese". That same work vias REQUIRES her to get paid above the market wage for a native Japanese in the same job, do you HONESTLY think a native Japanese nursing assistant is making US$8.50 an hour? I can some land in Florida to sell you too.
Likewise you really think all those "foreign" content creators and road warrior teleworkers are getting work visa? When you travel on vacation, are you getting a work visa before you check your corporate email while on holiday or write (more towards Bryan) a substack most which generates income?
Illegal foreigner work is the norm in most of the world hence why would NOT assume that especially given the story that person presented suggests illegality every way you look at it.
I tend to assume ill on the part of random fellow human beings, particularly those trying to tell me their story. Just projection, I guess. I'm a rotten one, I admit.
I don't assume ill (maleficent), just that they are storytelling in the traditional sense it's a story, not facts, i.e. something I learned in my colored life is to respect the old idiom "it's your story, you can tell it how you want, I just don't have to believe you". But generally since people don't tend to brag about criminality in the company I assume Bryan keeps, I tend to believe it when they tell me they are criminals.
Likewise I tend to treat people as I believe them regardless because respect can do funny things to a person, i.e. if you tell me you are going to stab me I'll respect that, even if I think you are completely full of it, because even though you weren't going too and it was a empty threat, you might feel the need to prove me wrong to not lose face / ego and in fact stab me if call you out on it. That extends to pretty much anything anyone tells me including what's the weather like or what time is it. I'll take you at your story until proven otherwise or it costs me more to not call you out. Otherwise I don't really care if you tell me you were the CEO of Goldman Sachs when you were twenty-three thirty years ago, it doesn't hurt me to genuinely treat you as if I believe you.