Because if they wanted offshore developers that they never met to do the work, they would have paid offshore developers that they never met to do the work. They

Because if they wanted offshore developers that they never met to do the work, they would have paid offshore developers that they never met to do the work. They wouldn't have spent their own time and money seeking out job candidates and interviewing them and attempting to vet them so they could pick the best candidate to do the job. Has nothing to do with whether or not anyone is capable of doing the work. I can see how someone who was doing this might excuse it to themselves as simply exploiting a perceived inefficiency in the system, but nobody other than the person actually doing it would buy that excuse. Even the phrase itself (I was just taking advantage of an inefficiency in the system!) is tainted by associations with white collar crime. That's a phrase that makes people sound like they think they've done something wrong and are trying to spin it, even when they've done nothing wrong.