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Cat’s already out of the bag. Collectively demanding to work in an office is, well, kind of silly. Maybe we should collectively demand something else. Maybe

Cat’s already out of the bag. Collectively demanding to work in an office is, well, kind of silly. Maybe we should collectively demand something else. Maybe we software engineers should get wise to the fact that, in theory, we’re as easily replaceable as a driver working for Uber. Sure, in practice, it may not be so easy to replace a Bay Area engineer with an engineer from a substantially less expensive country, but it’s doable, and perhaps that should give us reason to pause. We shouldn’t so easily enable bad actors because our compensation makes us believe that we’re fundamentally different from a factory worker. We’re not. We should wholly expect to one day have to live in the world we created. We should expect to reap what we sow.

brtkdotse 5y ago
> replace a Bay Area engineer with an engineer from a substantially less expensive country There’s no such thing as “hiring” someone overseas. You have to either a) establish a legal presence in the country of the job taker or b) have them form a company and invoice you. Both come with different challenges (and advantages).
- greenyoda 5y ago
  Many large U.S. companies already have a legal presence in countries all over the world because they have sales offices there. For example, here is the list of Google offices in Asia: https://about.google/intl/ALL_us/locations/?region=asia-pacific https://about.google/intl/ALL_us/locations/?region=asia-paci...
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RestlessMind 5y ago
> We should wholly expect to one day have to live in the world we created. We should expect to reap what we sow. Or, we can anticipate those outcomes and work to avoid the ones we don't like. A lot of the current state of the human society can be traced back to concerted effort(s) by a group of people at some point in our history.

brtkdotse 5y ago

> replace a Bay Area engineer with an engineer from a substantially less expensive country There’s no such thing as “hiring” someone overseas. You have to either a) establish a legal presence in the country of the job taker or b) have them form a company and invoice you. Both come with different challenges (and advantages).

greenyoda 5y ago
Many large U.S. companies already have a legal presence in countries all over the world because they have sales offices there. For example, here is the list of Google offices in Asia: https://about.google/intl/ALL_us/locations/?region=asia-pacific https://about.google/intl/ALL_us/locations/?region=asia-paci...
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RestlessMind 5y ago

> We should wholly expect to one day have to live in the world we created. We should expect to reap what we sow. Or, we can anticipate those outcomes and work to avoid the ones we don't like. A lot of the current state of the human society can be traced back to concerted effort(s) by a group of people at some point in our history.