| PG ignored current trends and recent history to an absurd degree in his recent blog post. Not factored into the equation: An actual, provable, verifiable history of illegal salary-fixing. The experiential reality that most immigrant programmers get a lot of mistreatment, both from racism and from their own incompetence - and the related experiential fact that a lot of immigrant programmers are utterly incompetent. The rhetoric of these arguments talks about 10x programmers, but companies really seem to prefer importing 0.1x programmers or even -10x programmers. Meanwhile, tons of companies have immense success with remote work, and the wage changes associated with the last ten years are not at all commensurate with the increased value of programming work. (See aforementioned illegal salary-fixing.) Is remote work easy? No. But is PG's business about doing easy things? No. I literally just ran grep -c "table" against a text dump of this comments page. The count was 122. 122 uses of the table tag. Since that includes </table>, 61 tables. This whole argument is as up-to-date as the HTML on this page. |