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> Shame on us for shipping over 211,000 of these jobs offshore to countries like Malaysia and Brazil. Americans have an advantage in doing them because of a cul
by growtofill 8y ago
> Shame on us for shipping over 211,000 of these jobs offshore to countries like Malaysia and Brazil. Americans have an advantage in doing them because of a cultural understanding of what businesses need and a more convenient time zone.
> When some of the Beckley students asked me what more they should do to bring tech, I joked that they would be wise to open up a few more Pakistani or Indian restaurants.
So the idea is one should not be a valuable tech employee working for a US company from abroad, they should come to the country and wash the dishes for a few years first? No, thank you.
- rndgermandude 8y agoNo >I saw that spark in the Beckley [W.Va] students, many from coal mining families It's quite the opposite: The joke was that the local US population should open those restaurants to attract tech talent to their towns.
- general8bitso 8y agoIt was a bad cargo-culting joke.