"Why the accent on physical presence?" Big money over there will prevent big money in the US from hiring smart people over there because big money over there w

"Why the accent on physical presence?" Big money over there will prevent big money in the US from hiring smart people over there because big money over there would rather sell those smart people (or their product) at a 400% markup. For example, this quote in an article about Google moving engineers out of Russia: "The changes in the political situation make it less viable, less feasible to maintain engineers here" http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/12/google-closes-engineering-office-russia http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/12/google-closes-e.... It's simply about money and has nothing to do about fulfilling immigrant's dreams or "being in the epicenter of tech" or any of that. Tech workers are money generators and people are simply trying to capture that money.