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Yep this. Let's equalise SF salaries with Europe and India first. What's that? You don't want to? Yeah I didn't think so. I guess this is what Marx was thinking
by joelbluminator 6y ago
Yep this. Let's equalise SF salaries with Europe and India first. What's that? You don't want to? Yeah I didn't think so.
I guess this is what Marx was thinking about when he wanted the workers of the world to unite. Without unity it's super easy for capital to flow to the cheapest labour possible. So far software engineers in the U.S didn't really feel it, but things can change.
- rtx 6y agoAll the turmoil we are starting to see in the first world countries is due to this. With the rise in productivity in third world countries the wages will keep moving towards a median.
- ForHackernews 6y ago"When it gets down to it — talking trade balances here — once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here — once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel — once the Invisible Hand has taken away all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity — y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music movies microcode (software) high-speed pizza delivery"