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it shocks me seeing how people are blind to the whole offshoring thing - I'm dev from 'third' world country (in Europe) and when joined my team had 9 people out
by anonbuddy 1y ago
it shocks me seeing how people are blind to the whole offshoring thing - I'm dev from 'third' world country (in Europe) and when joined my team had 9 people out of 13 from USA. In 4 years, we are down to ONE person, and this one is on H1B visa.
- pandaman 1y agoNot completely blind, there is a bill to put a 25% excise tax on offshored labor: https://www.moreno.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/The-HIRE-Act.pdf https://www.moreno.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/The...
- giantg2 1y agoIn general, I think this would be a great idea. There's little chance of it passing.
- pandaman 1y agoI agree on both points, but my point was that there are people aware of outsourcing and working on curbing it too.
- fair_enough 1y agoYour comment did not deserve to be downvoted, I don't know who did it or why they did it without some kind of comment explaining their bone of contention.
- pandaman 1y agoLikely the person who smugly commented how other countries should tax US companies doing business there (implying that they don't do already?).
- wqaatwt 1y agoIt would be as great if European and others countries put a 25% tax on all revenue Google, Facebook etc. generate in their countries. Especially tech companies making their money from ads and such provide very little real value and just drain massive amounts of money and transfer it to the US economy. They generally have way more employees in the US relative to how much money they are making domestically.