[kitsune_]

Yeah, it is horrible. Why limit your professional life, team, workplace and day to day exchanges to a tiny pool of people when there are billions of people who inhabit planet earth.

[Chris2048]

Reciprocity. People you have fewer bonds/relationships with are less likely to reciprocate, and more likely to compete.

> a tiny pool of people

Are you talking about the US (dev) population?

[mjmsmith]

This assumes that shared nationality is going to make for stronger bonds. The way things are going, the opposite might be true.

[Chris2048]

> The way things are going, the opposite might be true

like all those celebs that threatened to leave the US?

[cronjobber]

Because Dunbar's number

[JumpCrisscross]

To give context "Dunbar's number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships — relationships in which an individual knows who each person is and how each person relates to every other person" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

[icantdrive55]

Because companies do what companies do best; keep down costs, and exploit every angle they can get away with.

It's gone on too long. We all see the abuses, but are afraid to say anything.

Since there's such a "tiny pool of people" move the organization to---say India? Or China? They must have eager qualified candidates?