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No Shortage In Tech Workers, Advocacy Groups Say
sabri writes To have a labor shortage or not to have, that's the question. According to the San Jose Mercury News: Last month, three tech advocacy groups launched a labor boycott against Infosys, IBM and the global staffing and consulting company ManpowerGroup, citing a "pattern of excluding U.S. workers from job openings on U.S soil." They say Manpower, for example, last year posted U.S. job openings in India but not in the United States." "It's getting pretty frustrating when you can't compete on salary for a skilled job," said Rich Hajinlian, a veteran computer programmer from the Boston area. "You hear references all the time that these big companies ... can't find skilled workers. I am a skilled worker."
As someone that has managed outsourcing to six different countries, you're wrong. The worst people I've hired here are better than the PhDs I've hired elsewhere. The only reason to outsource is because of the massive shortage of tech workers. I've only interviewed a single Java developer in person the past year despite having a full time recruiter, offering a $10k referral bonus, advertising nonstop on Craigslist, and even paying the ridiculous amount of money to advertise on monster.com. Offering low six figures a year here in the Seattle area can't even get people in the door.
Have government provide a basic income
- government doesn't have anything "to provide", it can only take away from somebody in order to subsidise somebody else, it doesn't produce anything and has nothing to give to anybody for free. If you are talking about government stealing even more resources from those, who are already being stolen from in order to provide bread and circuses to those, who are already on welfare anyway, then all you will achieve will be more corruption, even less production, as those producing, will be moving their productive capacity out of the country even faster.
You can't handle the truth.