As someone who found an old I-94 in his wallet last week and spent a while as an alien, I try to be sympathetic to those sort of rants. It is genuinely frustrat

As someone who found an old I-94 in his wallet last week and spent a while as an alien, I try to be sympathetic to those sort of rants. It is genuinely frustrating when employers solve problems by finding a cheaper labour force instead of automating an unnecessary process or fixing the underlying technical issue. A company I once worked for that will remain nameless paid an entire team of people in the Philippines to read global weather reports and respond to them instead of integrating with the relevant APIs, solely because it would have been a higher upfront cost to get expensive US-based engineers to do the work, and I found it infuriating: partly because the time of the two groups was valued so differently, but also because it was just so inelegant and pointless.