Leaving aside the nationalist politics, this would do approximately as described by the paper: a heap more indentured engineers coming in, able to be underpaid

Leaving aside the nationalist politics, this would do approximately as described by the paper: a heap more indentured engineers coming in, able to be underpaid and exploited, driving down market rates for salaries. That's going to be real fun for people in competition with the body shops. :-/ Outsourcing has its next iteration, I guess. This is, by the way, why hackers should pay attention to politics. The political forces know how to game systems of humans extremely well - an apex politician has the backing of a machine tuned to game politics for him & them at the level of a Gosling or a Steele with an army of supporters. Staying out of politics and wanting change is equivalent to not contributing/communicating to a project at all and moaning to your friends: ain't nothing gonna happen.