| No, there was already an "AI-like", but much more superior solution available for decades at this point: Outsourcing the work to a country with low wages. Even nowadays you can get highly skilled workers for like $50 a month in some African countries. Pay them $500 a month instead and you've got yourself highly motivated employees, who are extremely eager to learn whatever skills you require. In the very long run robots and "AI" will of course wipe out 99.9% of the available jobs, but at that point we'll have to think about other solutions on the political level anyways. It is reasonable to assume any jobs done exclusively in front of computers are very early on the chopping block, but as long as you don't see the business majors or business jurists being sent out the door enmasse, I wouldn't worry too much. And at that point you'll still have first class logical deduction and math skills and a lot of knowledge about algorithms, which are highly valuable skills in general. |
But this is not the norm. In order for company X to hire people from a different country, it is necessary that:
- company X hires contractors/freelancers. The vast majority of people out there in IT work as employees, not as contractors
- company X needs a branch in that country. This is rare
- company X hires in that country via an intermediary company. Not as rare, but usually it's not worth it
Not even in Europe countries hire people from other countries that easily. It's more common now after covid, yes, but it's definitely not "let's hire from country X developers 50% cheaper!"