| Agreed it might end up being the way you mentioned but it might end up being very extreme. We both don't know yet which way it'll end up being. -> but, there will still be advantages for US companies to pay for US developers: culture I disagree here. My company has moved completed teams to India with no loss in productivity. Company today survives because of some projects that happened in India. Had the projects not moved to India some American folk would have been working on it and gathering accolodes and feeling proud of their work. -> People will start companies here and hire people in other countries to code for them. I don't know. People don't want to work for other people if they can start companies. How many chinese work for US organizations. They have their own companies and people to work for. There are lot of points I want to bring forth but I fear they might hurt someone.
In the beginning it'll help people people living in Texas or Nevada. But that benefit will be short lived. People in USA are still super expensive compared to people in other countries. Same argument hold for H1B. You get some selected very smart people ( only smart not the abuse that Infosys has been upto ). They train 10 people. Start companies hire americans. Economy and people here in general benefit. You stop them from coming here. They can do their work sitting in their 10 by 10 room in some other country. See guys California's/New york's loss will soon boil down to USA's loss. Maybe it'll take 10 years. But USA is still one country. Taxes people pay in california is still used for the developement of the country. Don't think of a 4 year picture here. 20 year picture in WFH situation will not settle well for USA's dominiance. It'll work well for China's dominance. They don't let their innovations leave their country :). |
This is not what I said. I said:
> They'll probably start their own companies (yes, probably at diminished wages) and produce their own products; and, recognizing the job losses they've seen to skilled, overseas competitors, they may choose to prefer to hire relatively local employees, and the whole cycle may start again.
That is: they may hire local devs.
Actively refusing to hire local or even in-nation devs and hiring only international devs is either something for a company so small they can't have a coworker; or, if they're hiring teams, some kind of money lover that wouldn't have hired local in the first place.