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On immigration policy: > Traditionally if I wanted to work at a company in another country I would have to go to that country. I’d have to be an immigrant from
by abvdasker 5y ago
On immigration policy:
> Traditionally if I wanted to work at a company in another country I would have to go to that country. I’d have to be an immigrant from my country, at least for a while. In a world of remote work and Zoom and Slack, I can now work for people anywhere in the world. I can work for companies doing any kind of knowledge work. Immigration policies apply to the atoms of human beings, they don’t apply to the bits. I can go to work for some company anywhere in the world if it’s a remote-friendly company. I may never travel there, I may never have to travel there.
Marc Andreessen is getting very close to saying the quiet part out loud. This is the clearest statement I've seen to date from a venture capitalist that white collar offshoring is almost certainly going to accelerate due to the shift towards remote work brought on by the pandemic.
- 908B64B197 5y ago> Marc Andreessen is getting very close to saying the quiet part out loud. This is the clearest statement I've seen to date from a venture capitalist that white collar offshoring is almost certainly going to accelerate due to the shift towards remote work brought on by the pandemic. If anyone isn't hiring international remote right now they are losing a huge opportunity. Lots of people are looking at jumping ships, and western companies can outbid almost anyone for top talent.
- exolymph 5y agoWell, it's a free market (for capital, but even then not really, but close enough for rhetorical purposes). Outcompete those offshore workers, there was never any other option.
- abvdasker 5y agoHard to outcompete such dramatic cost savings. An engineer India is going to cost a tiny fraction of one in the Bay Area. Not sure that's a winnable competition unless you accept a massive pay cut.
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- dboreham 5y agoMy sense is that today a top notch engineer in India, working for a US-based company, doesn't cost "a tiny fraction" of one in the Bay Area. A faction, yes, but not a tiny fraction.
- snovv_crash 5y agoExactly. If they're as good as you think they are, they'll also be good at capturing a large fraction of the value they create. There's an ancient Dilbert about this somewhere...
- snovv_crash 5y agohttps://dilbert.com/strip/1997-02-08 https://dilbert.com/strip/1997-02-08
- mattnewton 5y agoIf it were a tiny fraction there would have to be an equally large opposite force keeping that engineer from immigrating to the US, and as onerous and terrible as the visa process is, I don't think it will prevent the best from migrating for better wages, even temporarily.
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