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Re:The 'white-collar bloodbath' is all part of the AI hype m... by catigula on Friday May 30, 2025 @05:07PM (#44139889)
That really only happened in HCOL areas.
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Re:The 'white-collar bloodbath' is all part of the AI hype m... by bravesoul2 on Friday May 30, 2025 @07:11PM (#44140597)
HCOL wasn't the driver though. It is abundance of investment and desire to hire. If the titans could collude to pay engineer half as much, they would. They tried.
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Re:The 'white-collar bloodbath' is all part of the AI hype m... by xp84 on Friday May 30, 2025 @05:31PM (#44140058)
Sure, but there was a massive concentration of such people in those areas.
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