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The article overthinks this. I been brain drained by being offered higher pay. You want to stop brain drain? PAY! Solved.

• warent 8y ago
  This is an oversimplification of a more nuanced issue. For example, perhaps the places that need it most can't afford it, and the places that can afford it can only do so because they already have the existing market for it.
  • Trias11 8y ago
    "Can't affordness" comes as a result of a lack of a resources/budget. Which means decision makers or ultimately state/federal government think that funding of certain things at certain geographies is not important. (Or alternatively not offering any stimulus such as reducing taxes). Article misleads reader by claiming "what is" without explaining the driving force behind the dynamics of skilled market.
  • threwawasy1228 8y ago
    At the same time when a company in my home state, offers pay at 55k for something that pays the equivalent of over double that on the coast there is something wrong. Software companies don't magically have smaller margins based on their geolocation if their user-base and contracts are global. In essence their offer of half what is reasonable is pure greed because they know they can get away with it in many cases. There are lots of companies doing exactly this and driving costs lower in areas where they can get away with it. I think a non-trivial amount of brain-drain is simply paying people what they are worth regardless of how nuanced the issue actually is.