foreign service markets become more attractive, americans again lose jobs to outsourcing, will be interesting to see how this plays out. I certainly think in the short term it will be better for the American worker (in terms of employment, mobility, higher wages), but long term?
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#132> overestimation of Russia's danger on the US and EU Depends what you mean by “EU”. Western Europe? Sure, Russia maybe isn't a big deal for them. But the Baltic states, which are EU and NATO member states, understandably consider their next-door neighbour a huge threat.
What would a big country benefit from invading its weak neighbor in the 21st century? Putin isn't an angle but he is surely not Europe's or US' enemy like the liberal media is trying hard to push that narrative. Many of the Baltic states are inexplicably pushing the west towards a pointless conflict with Russia. It's just like Georgia in 2008 or maybe even like Poland with Nazi Germany in late 1930s.
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#133Ok what's the suprise here? If you give companies a chance to get cheaper "mostly the same" labor without a downside, or maybe with the upside they can't leave, they're going to take it. That's why I do believe globalization and the availability of huge amounts of cheap unregulated labor does hurt American jobs and industry. Its not xenophobia, its just common sense. I think if you look past any ideas of racism, xeno…
There have been many studies on this. Conservatives usually use the phrase "at best, the impact is nil" Liberals usually use the phrase "at worst, the impact is nil" Because the study shows there is negligible impact. Every laborer is also a spender. If the person saves, then every laborer is also an investor. If you believe in the mainstream economic theory, more jobs are produced for the ones that are "taken." You…
> Because the study shows there is negligible impact. Every laborer is also a spender. If the person saves, then every laborer is also an investor.
See the sweatshops, guess they are just "another spender":
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103798/Revealed-Ins...
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
>treat them the way the Democrats have treated, for example, the gun and coal industries. You want more strongly written letters?
>You want more strongly written letters? In 2008, candidate Obama remarked, “If somebody wants to build a coal-fired power plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them. … Under my plan … electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” Four major coal companies have filed for bankruptcy in just the past 15 months. http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/h-sterling-burnett/obama-d...
Do you have a link that isn't extremely partisan political commentary?
The reality is even without Obama's CPP coal is dying world wide, between china pouring billions into clean energy and the natural gas boom in the states coal can't compete.
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#135Trump asks the right questions: the danger of globalism, incredibly high global debt, the danger of radical islam, the overestimation of Russia's danger on the US and EU, the questionable usefulness of NATO, the economic manipulation by China, he just has the wrong answers.
The danger of radical Islam?? That one's in the mix just for an extra dose of racist nationalism. They'll stop fighting us once we stop occupying their countries.
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#136I actually saw this with a few of my colleagues that worked at Amazon. There was one superb engineering — one of the best Android developers I've ever worked with. Our project ended and, I had the freedom to leave Amazon and jump to another company (which I did), but he was stuck. He ended up having to move his family from SF to Seattle just to keep his job all in hopes that he didn't screw up his H-1B visa process.
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#137The discussion about H1Bs is getting dominated by SV. The brunt of the changes are gonna affect other industries, for example, someone i know is currently doing a masters in biotech at a really good research university, and she is really scared about the 130k lower limit for H1B applicants. According to her, even postdocs in her field don't make that much! If the new H1B system passes as is, then its gonna cause a massive brain-drain in most fields that are not SV tech related.
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are studies performed on this stuff by actual economists out there, to save you using self-reporting surveys from online recruitment companies. http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/the-stem-crisis-i... http://www.epi.org/publication/pm195-stem-labor-shortages-mi... >The average hourly wage for college-educated workers in computer and math occupations rose 5.3 percent over 11 years, from $37.27 in 2000 to…
If your study is claiming that software engineer compensation rose no more rapidly than the population at as a whole (they also saw a 5% increase), then something is deeply wrong with your study. Note that "Computer and math occupations" is a broad catch-all term which includes all sorts of professions, such as: Computer User Support Specialist: Provide technical assistance to computer users. Answer questions or reso…
If your contention that it rose is based on your experience in SV or NY or similar, then you're probably not getting a complete picture of the state of the industry.
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#139"We have a Talent Shortage" is industry slang for "We are unwilling to train paid apprentices."
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#140Oh that vicious liberal media. They're really sticking it to him, aren't they?
Find another positive story out of the two dozen Trump hit pieces http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.