Sunday, October 11, 2009

Cheap labor w extra profit for Australia

The Australians have an interesting scheme that allows foreigners to stay maybe 8 months on a holiday work visa, this surely fills a lot of temp jobs.

Then for people who legally cannot immigrate they can become "students": As long as they're "studying" they can work fulltime. Since the "studying" costs a lot in fees to the colleges and universities this is like a high tax. Its one of the major "exports" for Australia. That and coal it'd seem. The country is full of natural resources easy to "harvest".

I'm not sure if I'm critical of the system. But I see a lot of people working really hard (6-7 days a week) in order to pay so that they won't have to leave.

.sigh

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