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> plus the recent talks of off-shoring I agree with all the factors you cited. On this specific one though, it is on the stupidity of American workers enamored
by RestlessMind 2y ago
> plus the recent talks of off-shoring
I agree with all the factors you cited. On this specific one though, it is on the stupidity of American workers enamored by remote working and couldn't think one step ahead. If your job can be done from Kansas, it is a matter of time before it is shipped off to Colombia. Coldhearted profit maximizing nature of Capitalism will ensure that.
The only people in the US who should be rooting for remote work are superstars with truly rare software talents, execs who have made it or shareholders. For the remaining plebs, there is a very small window to wake up and go to offices. And make sure remote work fails massively. That's your only moat to keep these good jobs in the US.
I myself warned about that multiple times: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27696235 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27696235 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29784222 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29784222
- nyarlathotep_ 2y agoZero argument here. I made a comment elsewhere here about how short-sighted programmers and the like are. Cheering for working in your sweatpants and how much you're "getting done" with whatever LLM editor, totally oblivious what they're supporting, courting a future of reduced wages and dramatically increased competition. I genuinely believe a large portion of the software types let the "engineer" titles and inflated compensation go to their heads, and they earnestly believed writing CRUD made them irreplaceable. Sad times.