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Tech Industry Warns That More Remote-Work Jobs Are Headed Out of U.S.

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Re: Tech Industry Warns That More Remote-Work Jobs Are Headed Out of U.S.

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Pre covid H1B was already huge and somewhat under fire for being a cost of labour diluting trend. If your company was willing to pay a US immigration cost to get somebody in, and can now shave 10%+ off salary to get the same awesome brains from another country AND get 24/7 effort on the problem... what's not to love?

because that’s not how capitalism works capitalism means making profits making profits means lowering costs outsourcing is a way to lower costs

coming back to this late, I think my english-language sentences confused people. What I said in "whats not to love" is "this is how capitalism works" but clearly you thought I was saying something else.

Re: Tech Industry Warns That More Remote-Work Jobs Are Headed Out of U.S.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Discrimination is not a function of supply and demand, it is a function of lack of legal protection. One can argue underleveraged groups does not deserve equal treatment unless they can overpower their situation, but personally I disagree with that opinion. I also totally understand if someone feels their salary is under threat and does not want to treat others fairly due to that. To be completely honest, there is a…

Your ideas are mixed up here. Companies are not 'discriminating' against people in other countries due to 'lack of legal protection'. They are just hiring people in other countries, and paying them what they are worth. That's it. It's 100% supply and demand. There are good and bad developers everywhere, and cost of living and opportunities are different everywhere. Supply and Demand will work itself out.

Do you think pay gaps exist in general or all compensation is fair and square because of supply and demand fixes everything?
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