Originally Posted by
CurtainTwitcher
Economics 101: supply vs demand. As supply is increased, the price will fall. Q.E.D if you want to prevent wage increases, increase supply. Two ways to do that, train them, or import them.
Welcome to Globalization of wages. It isn't about boosting developing world wages, rather pressuring the developed world down to the third world standard.
Citizenship [or the prospect of it] & residency are the carrots to facilitate this process. NZ has been a poster child for this method of suppressing wages, AU isn't far behind.
Ahhh now I see it. There's a shortage of pilots at the right price. How silly of me to think otherwise.
On the other hand there doesn't seem to be a shortage of the plonkers who dream up these schemes to solve this "shortage". That's a real pity isn't it?