shindog

I think you are correct. It’s about where you draw the line. The line should be adjusted to account for this. What that looks like I don’t know but I agree even application of laws when they exist is only just.

Why does it matter though. If they produce something good it’ll make money. Otherwise it’ll fail and they’ll go back doing something else. Whole thing is a nothing burger.

Easy it’s casus belli to create (likely already exist) and use similar weapons.

Having been in this situation it’s so incredibly difficult. Especially if it happens early career you don’t know what you don’t know. It ends up becoming tedious for people with work ethic which is like to consider myself having. Your soul wants to be productive and you know you aren’t. Maybe it’s an ego thing. Or just procrastination. I think you are right. Just that it’s hard to do.

Fair points in some places yeah!

Bit of an ignorant statement even if it is IBM. What’s wrong with developers “overseas” (a completely relative term but forgivable in the YC context) why call them monkeys (not an sjw so not even going to go down that words rabbit hole). Having worked with many a yank their quality is just as variable and I’ve seen better output standard maintained by some European teams even if scale is limited.