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What does this mean for employee salaries? Will it become harder to find new cheap talent? Will our technology evolution be as dynamic as it has been?
by morganslaw 5y ago
What does this mean for employee salaries? Will it become harder to find new cheap talent? Will our technology evolution be as dynamic as it has been?
- toyg 5y agoWas this a satyrical / sarcastic question, poking fun at HN attitudes? It's pretty obvious last year was not part of a trend.
- morganslaw 5y agoIt is part of a general trend: https://www.brookings.edu/research/u-s-population-growth-has-nearly-flatlined-new-census-data-shows/ https://www.brookings.edu/research/u-s-population-growth-has... https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2020-12-24/us-population-growth-projected-to-stall-african-countries-surge-by-2100 https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2020-12-...
- harambae 5y agoA lot of jobs are remote, at least partially, right now. I do wonder what it means for rural home prices.
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- jelsisi 5y agoNo, finding cheap talent is more an immigration problem right now than a population problem. The population still grew.
- 30788320 5y agoRight, and if you’re in the US and alive today, you will never see the end of cheap labor. Even as globalization winds down, the US’ relationship with Mexico will ensure that.
- bushbaba 5y agoPopulation only grew due to immigration. This can quickly get ugly. Lack of workers leading to wage inflation. While demand could shrink leading to less buying
- fundad 5y agoTrue. What’s encouraging is that demand kept up the entire duration of the trade war and over the last year as consumer prices soared to cover the cost of hiring back almost 10,000,000 laid off workers.
- candiddevmike 5y agoWe'll automate the jobs that we can, and keep inflating our assets to ensure a healthy proletariat for everything else.
- avgcorrection 5y agoFertility rates go down—employers most affected