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Yep it's another labor shortage. Guess we'll have to bring in foreign developers who we have more leverage over and pay much lower wages to. Sorry, but we hav

• bialpio 5y ago
  That's just invisible hand of the market at work. Why should a company spend more than it has to? Isn't this what the oh-so-sacred capitalism is all about?
  • fallingknife 5y ago
    I pay taxes to the government supposedly so that it will act in my interest. I'd like it to do it's damn job for once.
    • bialpio 5y ago
      Except you are not the only one paying taxes (and lobbying) and now the government needs to come up with solutions that satisfy everyone, with the current approach seemingly being that regulation is a slippery slope to socialism and eating bark off of trees. In order for the government to limit outsourcing (which IMO would increasingly happen if you ban immigration), you'd have to impose limits on what private companies can do with their own assets - I don't think this'll fly.
      • fallingknife 5y ago
        Well a solution that satisfies everyone is impossible, but most people derive the vast majority of their income from labor, not capital assets, so policies that prevent expansion of the labor supply will benefit the vast majority of citizens.
• outside1234 5y ago
  Agreed, some large fraction of those 10M unemployed Americans should learn how to code at some level (could be a CNC machine, could be Excel, ..., could be Python) to get to employable.