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Re:Immigration is about talent, not costs by 3pt14159 on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @12:49PM (#8688515)
Any position paying more than minimum wage is a position with an economic shortage.

I'm for easy immigration, but let's not pretend that this isn't going to reduce tech worker wages in the area. (In the long run though, it could help, since you tend to get more specialization and scale when large numbers of a certain type of profession are congregated around a certain area).

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Re:Immigration is about talent, not costs by hnnewguy on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @12:56PM (#8688563)
>but let's not pretend that this isn't going to reduce tech worker wages in the area

Right, I don't dispute this.

But whether this is good or bad depends on whether you are buying or selling the labour.

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