Tech's Offshore Hiring Has Gone into Overdrive(wired.com)
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Tech's Offshore Hiring Has Gone into Overdrive
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Here we go again. It's 2001 all over again. This must seem novel if you're not old enough to remember it. If you are, it's just incredibly tiresome to have to go through it again.
I think its more "cheaper labor" than filling vacancies that can't be filled using local labor.
Competing with a billion people to lower wages and make jobs scarce. Combined with the rising prices of housing due to so many people moving here.
When will other countries pull their own weight with job creation and economic success instead of just takeing from America and Europe?
When will other countries pull their own weight with job creation and economic success instead of just takeing from America and Europe?
> When will other countries pull their own weight with job creation and economic success instead of just takeing from America and Europe?
The sheer ignorance of this comment is astounding. Not considering the fact that america and eu started off by plundering the rest of the world of riches. And more than half of startups in US are run by immigrants.
But Steve from Alabama suddenly cries DEY TUK MAH JERB
The sheer ignorance of this comment is astounding. Not considering the fact that america and eu started off by plundering the rest of the world of riches. And more than half of startups in US are run by immigrants.
But Steve from Alabama suddenly cries DEY TUK MAH JERB
Steve from Alabama is not the person complaining this time. It's Ignacio from San Francisco.
Let us ignore both the historical reality of US industrial mechanization and that "startup" is liberally defined in the US; you're still improperly identifying who (rightly) fears this.
The last 30 years saw the result of globalization on industrial production. However, technology has made knowledge work far easier to outsource than it ever was to outsource a factory. This trend and its inevitable consequences will lead to the community herein facing hardships they've mocked for a long time. Indeed, it's almost part of the tech identity in the US to consider itself as "other" from that group, as you've so aptly demonstrated. But a "Make Bay Area Tech Great Again" movement will be even less fruitful than attempting to onshore American manufacturing before its time: the economics don't support it and its community of practitioners is in denial.
Let us ignore both the historical reality of US industrial mechanization and that "startup" is liberally defined in the US; you're still improperly identifying who (rightly) fears this.
The last 30 years saw the result of globalization on industrial production. However, technology has made knowledge work far easier to outsource than it ever was to outsource a factory. This trend and its inevitable consequences will lead to the community herein facing hardships they've mocked for a long time. Indeed, it's almost part of the tech identity in the US to consider itself as "other" from that group, as you've so aptly demonstrated. But a "Make Bay Area Tech Great Again" movement will be even less fruitful than attempting to onshore American manufacturing before its time: the economics don't support it and its community of practitioners is in denial.
Maybe Ignacio from San Francisco needs to relocate so that he can be more competitive.
The free market does not have to support their lifestyle, programming is a meritocracy and a better, cheaper programmer will eat your lunch. Welcome to the treadmill, start running.
The free market does not have to support their lifestyle, programming is a meritocracy and a better, cheaper programmer will eat your lunch. Welcome to the treadmill, start running.
Absolutely hilarious that people don't think that this will just cause more and more conflict within the borders of the disenfranchised. Great economic theory in textbooks, in reality it will just lead to domestic and international conflict. People don't care much for meritocracy if their livelihoods or, more importantly, their status are (is) at stake.
But then again comments like yours are akin to those who didn't see trump, brexit and deglobalization coming a mile away.
Can't wait for the decade of the 2020s to see how it plays out.
But then again comments like yours are akin to those who didn't see trump, brexit and deglobalization coming a mile away.
Can't wait for the decade of the 2020s to see how it plays out.
The North American, European, and Australian treadmill you mean?
Other countries haven't created a treadmill anyone wants to run on.
Other countries haven't created a treadmill anyone wants to run on.
> started off by plundering the rest of the world of riches
Cope? Mongolia, Rome, etc plundered the world more than anyone and not much going on there.
> Half the startup in the US are run by immigrants
but were they STARTED by immigrants? Important distinction.
Cope? Mongolia, Rome, etc plundered the world more than anyone and not much going on there.
> Half the startup in the US are run by immigrants
but were they STARTED by immigrants? Important distinction.
They kind of did take the jobs.