I'm a foreigner ( or rather, I'm not an American... I'm not a foreigner here because I'm in my home country ), and I have a job working for a US corporation. The plan was to bring me to the US to work, which would mean spending my money in US businesses, paying US taxes, and just generally propping up the US economy.

What actually happened was the hoops were such a pain in the ass, that I work for the same company, the same pay, the same job, except all the ( previously inside America ) money that I make goes to propping up foreign business, paying foreign taxes, etc.

My entire salary is now removed from the USA, and you guys ( Americans ) don't get to see a cent of it back except for the odd purchase I make of a US built or designed product.

No, that's a caricature of Evil Red Communism.

It precisely makes it less capitalist. "From each according to ability to each according to need"

The problem is the knee-jerk reaction to the word "socialism". Nobody wants to accept that maybe some aspects of socialism aren't all that bad. Similarly not all of capitalism is all that bad ( or all that good either ). The most healthy systems employ elements from both

Woah there... as a philosophy geek that's done entire courses on Leviathan alone, I can say definitively that you are way out of left field with that one. Hobbes predicted nothing of the sort no matter how you interpret it. The "nasty, brutish, and short" comment was about man devoid of any form of governance such as the literary scenario he laid out for the condition of man in the past.

A horrible misrepresentation of a text like that'll garner you a C- at best by anyone who has actually read the book

THIS.

If one is predisposed to Parkinsons or something, which wouldn't manifest itself until late middle age, a car accident ( as early 20 year olds are prone to ) could make the difference between a successful multi-billion dollar CEO of something that benefits society ( who later dies of parkinsons ) and a bankrupt service sector wage slave ( who later dies of parkinsons )

s/kantianism/deontology

/philosophy geek

And if you've ever had the misfortune of hitting up RedHat for that support, you'd understand the value of having one "buck stops here" company like Sun to call rather than your problem being chalked up to "unsupported kernel bugs"