U.S. predicts zero job growth for electrical engineers

Re:U.S. predicts zero job growth for electrical engineers by shrewduser on Monday December 28, 2015 @10:28PM (#10805010)

you want to be a world beating company you'd better have your talent pool be the world.

American tech would be a shell of what it is without foreign labour.

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Re:U.S. predicts zero job growth for electrical engineers by coliveira on Monday December 28, 2015 @11:06PM (#10805123)

Big fallacy here... The Japanese built a world-class technology industry with local labor. German companies are still best in class using local labor. Israel has a thriving technology industry based on local labor. Why would the US companies be any different from what they are right now? 90%+ of Google/FB/Apple software development is US based. The only real difference is that they would have to pay higher salaries, which doesn't seem to be a big burden, since their owners are multibillionaires -- that is, these companies are clearly not counting pennies to survive.

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Re:U.S. predicts zero job growth for electrical engineers by shrewduser on Saturday January 09, 2016 @07:54PM (#10873617)

japans tech sector is hardly thriving, are they really your first example? 0% economic growth for 20 years?

Israel is nascent and not very comparable, plus they do pull in a lot of global talent, germany also to a much greater extent than japan.

also, I'm not saying you can't have a 'viable' industry without importing good talent. I'm just saying it won't be as good.

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