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> Management isn’t dumb and would happily off-shore to the cheapest remote workers I've had my share of severe pushbacks with "management" over the years. The

> Management isn’t dumb and would happily off-shore to the cheapest remote workers I've had my share of severe pushbacks with "management" over the years. They've often been burned by shopping projects out to the lowest bidder and suddenly realize you need competent engineers to make it happen. The problem is you can find competent engineers now across the planet for far less than what you would pay a US-based engineer, forget about whatever is going on in SF/SV. A lot of people would like to stick their fingers in their ears and say "nah nah nah" rather than realize what is going on, but I deal with it daily.

VirusNewbie 5y ago
So in 20012, when Skype was huge, why didn't this take over? It's not like it didn't happen, people have been poaching rockstars across the globe forever. But are you really saying that it's only in 2020 that people put effort into outsourcing to cheaper foreign talent? Or that the technology of remote work is now what makes it possible? I dispute that as well, good remote collaboration has been happening in open source for forever. People who can make it work make it work. It's not the issue and never has been.