[blazespitfire]

If someone earning half your salary is able to satisfy everything that you offered to the company, I think the problem is not what you mentioned but it is a reflection of inflated salaries in the valley.

I think it is a good thing if this happens. This salary inflation has made it impossible for anyone else to afford living there. It will also help curb the entitlement that valley IT employees carry around thinking that they are always changing the world.

[RestlessMind]

If this problem was only narrowly applicable to SV, then yes, you might have a point. I am talking about a majority of new hires being in other countries. At that point, to spite SV rich techies, you are rooting for destruction of a good pool of middle class jobs for the entire US. Is that really what you want?

[zozbot234]

> I am talking about a majority of new hires being in other countries.

That would be no different from the mid-2000s outsourcing trend, which never really worked out either. There were just lots and lots of horror stories where quality and productivity would take a nosedive whenever those outsourced teams were involved.

[RestlessMind]

But that time, we were outsourcing whole projects which was doomed to fail because of collaboration hurdles and a lack of context. This time is different - we are hiring one team member at a time, who are equally effective as other team members, except at 1/3 price.

I have seen both, 2000's outsourcing and what is happening now. It is a very different game now and far more dangerous to US techies.