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Re:Big Tech Resumed Hiring Foreign Workers Just Weeks After ... by UncleMeat on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @08:24AM (#35974268)
Software jobs create software jobs. A huge reason why engineers in the US are paid so much better than in other countries is because people from all over the world come here to be educated in software and work in software.

There was far lower supply of software engineers in the 1980s. But that market was much worse for software engineers in the US.

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Re:Big Tech Resumed Hiring Foreign Workers Just Weeks After ... by s1artibartfast on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @09:21AM (#35974875)
OK, by that logic we should vastly increase software visas to counteract recent layoffs and get people back to work
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Re:Big Tech Resumed Hiring Foreign Workers Just Weeks After ... by UncleMeat on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @11:26AM (#35976678)
In my opinion, that's true. We should be bringing even more skilled people to this country to work. Making sure that the US is the center of the software world is good for US software engineers.
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