>Facebook already has R&D centers around the world, you're talking as if this hasn't already happened. Developed at a time where they could feasibly say there

>Facebook already has R&D centers around the world, you're talking as if this hasn't already happened. Developed at a time where they could feasibly say there just wasn't the volume of talent in the US to support their ambitions. With all the startups going bust, big companies laying people off, etc. the same argument won't be feasible. In my eyes at least. >Exactly. That's why I don't think the average American is going to care about 250K a year jobs in Silicon Valley moving somewhere else. I don't see a lot of empathy to the millionaire class in the U.S That's one way of looking at it. Another is that FB and others moving the work away will directly impact the large swathes of people who work for these companies not in tech roles, and also decimate the local economy around their offices by dropping demand for local goods, services and by extension the jobs that exist to provide and fulfill the same. All it takes is a couple of Democratic figureheads to get on TV and say that Zuckerberg et al's actions will dis-proportionally throttle the lives of minorities and the socially disadvantaged, which is true, and presto, you further the ire toward them at a time when they can least afford it.