let's do a thought experiment. you're a regional at&t style telecom company that needs to make it look like they made more money this year than last year. you're not expanding that's too risky and potentially expensive. you're not going to start competing with other telecom companies, since someone has to lose in a competitive market and you can't guarantee it wont be you. so without adding new customers or taking them from a competitor the only path to increasing revenue is to decrease expenses. since you're an infrastructurally reliant company you can't shrink your infrastructure without losing consumers, and you need a minimum number of staff to maintain the current infrastructure. so now you're left with only 2 realistic options to make more money: raising prices, or making staff cost less money. if you raise prices people will be mad, and you'll face gay backlash, maybe you lose customers, maybe even signal to a competitor that you're weak, so that's unattractive.  the only realistic option in the current economic reality is to make your staff less expensive, green line must go up, so you fire 600 domestic employees, hire on 600 h1b's and pay them all $12,000 less a year than your old employees, and change nothing else about your business. you've now made $7.2 million dollars more.  the only real alternative is to raise prices, and americans want that less than they hate brown people
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