Re:Companies worry more about access to software developers ...
by dragonwriter on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @12:54PM
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> Which is exactly what happens during an oil crisis
Paying more happens; so does seeking to exploit currently-underutilized supplies (equivalent to outsourcing) or find ways to improve efficiency of systems that depend on oil (equivalent of increasing developer productivity), both a responses to the first effect of the supply constraint, high market price.
Which is exactly what happens during an oil crisis... :)
Oil prices rise, and people who don't need oil so much stop purchasing it.
> The SW development crisis is that companies have to pay more for high-octane developers and they don't want to, or can not afford to pay ludicrous prices.
Right, with one small difference:
In the US, employers get to whine to the government about this eternal "crisis", then the government issues hundreds of thousands more work visas (in addition to the "minimal quota" of hundreds of thousands that is already issued every year like clockworks), and then the employers are happy: they get to fire older, well-paid employees, and hire fresh H1B holders who are tethered to their jobs and can be deported for poor performance, much like slaves.
They keep wages down this way, until next year, when they whine some more about how Americans don't want to become engineers. One wonders why.