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Surely if companies are desperate for developers, there would be very few unemployed developers.

• onion2k 10y ago
  If local wages are high then it's possible for companies to be desperate for workers and for there to be high levels of unemployment. For example, if someone adds $50k to the company's bottom line then paying them more than $50k represents a loss. This is actually one of the tech industries biggest challenges - how do you drive the cost of products down to compete in the marketplace when producing software costs so much due to high wages. The simplest answer is to drive wages down by recruiting immigrants. The long term answer is increase the pool of available labor by pushing for children to learn to code at school.
  • UK-AL 10y ago
    Then you offer them 40K and they accept because its better than being unemployed? That's literally how markets work. They go up or down based on demand.