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conductryesterday at 5:09 PM1 replyview on HN

This is and always has been an eventuality. It's like fighting inertia or gravity to think otherwise. When the pay disparity is so massive, what is the incentive to hire US talent?

I say that as an American that is concerned with our local economies and employment but that's not looking through rose colored glasses.


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unyttigfjelltolyesterday at 5:50 PM

If a company is looking to offshore a function purely on the basis of cost differential, that’s a sure sign the company believes the function has been commoditized and is immune from competitive selection.

That’s a specific slice of the workforce, not all of it.

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