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> How many of your fellow citizens do you know who have the skills to get a good job and don't get one because of foreign competition? It's kind of a chicken a
by unishark 6y ago
> How many of your fellow citizens do you know who have the skills to get a good job and don't get one because of foreign competition?
It's kind of a chicken and egg problem. I certainly know people with skills to do what used to be good jobs, but aren't good jobs anymore due to foreign competition.
- zara_arias 6y agoThat means they were over pricing their skills. This is how a free market works.
- BlueGh0st 6y agoIt's not a free market. It's a regulated market with a gaping loophole.
- zara_arias 6y agoSomeone wiling to work for less is a loophole? You must be a fan of price fixing then.
- jupp0r 6y agoI don't see how this is a matter of compensation. Companies want to hire the best engineers. Your friends seem to not fit that bill. If there is no pool of good engineers, companies will look elsewhere. I don't see the scenario where less competition is helping anybody here. Your friends should work on their skills.
- unishark 6y agoSeems none of the responses to your question was a true enough scotsman. Hiring isn't a competition to find the smartest candidate, silly Google interviews notwithstanding. Companies want the "good enough" candidate they can get for the least pay. Otherwise all job ads would express a preference for principal engineers with doctorates, instead of the opposite which is far more common. So yes competition drives down pay, it doesn't drive up everyone's skills.