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I don't know if that's true. I've had some pretty awesome pastries in French speaking Africa, made by French trained patissiers. Pastries that rivaled ones made in France. And this was in hot and humid climates.

Like "software engineer", "chef" is a pretty much unregulated title. You can be hired as a "chef" as a fairly low skilled short order cook, or as a highly skilled, highly trained master of fine fusion cuisine.

And at the top tiers (like people who do $2000 wedding cakes), pastry chefs are definitely highly skilled and highly trained.

Please don't generalize from a single comment to "this forum". You're painting thousands of people with a very broad brush.

I also saw this a great deal among Indians and citizens of neighboring countries when I was in grad school. It was a huge problem, so much so that the Dean sent out a letter about it. Without specifying nationalities, but everyone knew who was implicated.

I was friends with some of them who engaged in this. After being straight up asked for help during one exam, I warned them not do it, and that this behavior would get them kicked out of school here, but it didn't matter. Most were very smart and talented, and really didn't need to cheat. But they did anyway. Cultural thing, I guess.

You know, I always heard this, and I have kind of a morbid fascination with old mainframe technologies, even though I've never used any professionally. So I looked pretty deeply into that job scene. Turns out the vast majority of the jobs hiring for COBOL etc pay 70,000 to 80,000 a year. It's not bad pay in some parts of the country, and the hours are generally reasonable. But they're not really, really good salaries.

>eth is traded to and from bitcoin on various exchanges, so it's a parallel.

eth is also traded to and from USD on various exchanges, so that's a parallel, too?

Listen, I'm no ethereum fanboy here, but logic, let's use it.

Is remote a possibility?

Please tell me you really did this. A company name would make my year, but I'll be satisfied with a simple yes/no confirmation.

> there is a lot of evidence that most employees are essentially fungible, at least at the scale of these large companies.

Yeah, all those software engineers corporate America outsourced in the 2000s turned out to be real fungible, right?