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Re:US college enrollments are falling, except for graduate d... by ChuckNorris89 on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @07:40AM (#24626445)
>Capitalism solves the resulting supply shortage of "qualified" plumbers, carpenters et. al. by providing cheap, eastern european, DIY-style "I can do everything"-craftsmen

You can say the same thing about software engineering. The push for easy immigration has solved the fake shortage in Germany and kept the salaries low enough to keep companies very profitable.

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Re:US college enrollments are falling, except for graduate d... by fock on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @08:20AM (#24626793)
Given the typical scope (e.g. burning VC money) of the companies going through the effort to hire/immigrate people, there is definitely no real supply shortage for software engineers. While for plumbers, there is, even with the influx of the aforementioned service people.
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