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by whatever1 260 days ago
If I charge you a fee of $10000 / month for home internet, while useful, you will prefer to just not use it and find other ways to access it (maybe from a library or a coffee shop).

Similarly the employers will just cut the bleeding edge programs that require specialty skills and will focus on others that the local labor market can cover.
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justinhj 260 days ago
The argument is that companies cannot hire locally the talent they need. The super star devs that make or break a company. And yet they are not worth $100k?
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whatever1 260 days ago
It depends on who you ask. If I’m a startup with $500,000 in the bank, I definitely don’t have $100,000 cash to spend on the taxman

However, if I’m a trillion-dollar company, why not?

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