Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?

You could lead by example and replace your own role with a "diverse" candidate?

"one of the two major political parties in the US likes their voters dumb - the dumber the better."

Not dumb enough to get a useless degree in feminist basket weaving on a 200k loan though..

I'm from the UK and almost everyone I know is finding it hard to get work in tech right now. There's also a lot of strange stuff going on in hiring here (especially for remote roles).

There's a huge number of what appear to be fake applicants who when interviewed appear to be based on India for remote roles (bad internet connection, very poor English, unusual decoration for a British home or use of background, strange background noises).

While these people can generally provide an ID of someone based in the UK and who has a legal right to work, my assumption is that they are not actually that individual.

In non-remote hiring there's been an explosion in the numbers of boot-camp devs applying for positions which is making it difficult to find good developers between weeds of applicants. The average developer role might get 300+ applications when 5-10 years ago that might have been 10-20.

I've also noticed a huge increase in companies filling underpaid positions by importing talent from abroad (generally from India). I used to work in the public sector and this seems to have been an increasingly common practice over the last few years. This may be because the public sector has found it hard to compete with private sector tech salaries and with the boom in migration in recent years they have started to turn to foreign talent as a way to fill roles where they're offering below-market-rate salaries (although I'm sure they'll claim there's a shortage of British people applying for these positions but we know that's salary related).

I think all of this combined along with the tech slowdown and economic stagnation in the UK has basically created a toxic combination in which it's very hard for UK tech workers to find work.

And because I know people will accuse me of xenophobia for what I'm saying here to be clear, I'm not suggesting any of this is bad or the fault of foreign workers. My family are working class and have had to compete with foreign labourers for many many years now. Many middle-class people like myself were quick to agree this was good for the economy and suggesting that it was simply that British workers were too lazy and didn't want to do jobs like clean toilets (well, except my mum I guess). So honestly if anything I think it's good that this trend is now hitting middle-class knowledge workers because perhaps now there will be a discussion about whether countries like the UK should be thought of primarily as economic zones in which its population are simply economic units which can be exchanged with economic units from other nations when it makes sense for businesses do so. Or whether alternatively the UK is nation which owes its best opportunities to its own citizens first, rather than offering them to a global labour pool (even if this is better for business and corporate profits).

That's interesting! What are the most notable aspects of gender-role variation you've observed across cultures as it affects your own job?

>ahh yes, the mythical Biden crime family... Any minute now there's be some evidence of literally anything - anything at all... No wait, before we get to evidence we'll at least have an idea of what crime he's supposed to have committed? (The drug and gun charges are fair enough - but they're very much related to Hunter - not to Joe.)

What more evidence do you need besides Biden pardoned his son in general for any and all offenses he committed in a 10 year period? The laptop has been acknowledged by even the pro-Democrat media now, after years of trying to bury the story and censor everyone on the topic. There is evidence of crimes related to Hunter's position on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian oil company. Biden had a lot of political protection to cover this up which is falling apart now.

>So they cast a vote based on wishful thinking? Ironically I think the current lifestyle is sustainable in the long term, with only minor lifestyle changes. But it would seem then that your voters would prefer to simply pretend the problems don't exist? That they can magically go back to 50 years ago?

>I must say, it sounds like you have less faith in the US voter than I do...

I say it's wishful thinking because the bottom line is we are going deeper and deeper into debt, outsourcing everything, and this election is the first sign in a long time that the public is waking up to their own demise.

>On the benefits front - a target cut of $2 trillion was made very clear. Looking at govt spending how exactly can that number be reached _without_ cutting benefits?

That was quite literally a random number that the campaign picked. I don't think they know how to cut $2 trillion. They promised not to cut benefits. Ending the wars might help, and maybe some things can be made more efficient. But a noticeable reduction in government benefits won't fly.

>I guess the next 4 years will play out, and either it'll be better or worse. My money is on worse (just based on the economic impact of the policies already announced) but I don't have a crystal ball, so I guess anything is possible...

My money is on worse. Not because Trump has the wrong idea, but because it's never gone any other way in my lifetime really, and I don't think he is a magician. I think a lot of people recognize that we're in a lot of trouble but don't see a way out. They can't even stop their jobs from being given to foreign workers and overseas companies. Many of them are struggling to get by. I myself make "good" money but I don't know when or if I will be able to buy a house or retire. Don't even get me started on the dating/marriage market.