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That's really handwavy. When we get Star Trek level translation, or perfect specs, or devs decide to sleep all day and work all night (because who needs a famil

That's really handwavy. When we get Star Trek level translation, or perfect specs, or devs decide to sleep all day and work all night (because who needs a family?). Every very-large business I know of has offices and teams in other countries, and it works best when they're "just" another office. Branch in SF, branch in NYC, branch in London, branch in Chennai, branch in... When you turn to other countries to grow your business, you can win; when you turn to other countries to replace the workers you built your company with you usually lose. IMO, YMMV, etc.

jiggy2011 14y ago
Well translation software is getting better, and plenty of people in the first world with families work weird shifts. The point is that this stuff (global working) is going to get easier , not harder in the future as is eliminating the needs for some jobs entirely. What we need is a new industry that requires a lot of workers and can pay a middle class salary. Otherwise we risk having a global proletariat fighting over an increasingly shrinking slice of pie.