I don’t think there is a desparate software labor shortage.
However I do think that US companies will move existng jobs overseas if they can’t hire people locally. Plus they will create new businesses outside the US. It is simpler to manage local staff, but it is not necessary that they be local. Many professional jobs can now be performed from nearly anywhere in the world.
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However I do think that US companies will move existng jobs overseas if they can’t hire people locally.
***Here’s where we differ. I see US companies moving existing jobs overseas even if they CAN hire people locally.
Plus they will create new businesses outside the US.
***That can’t be good for the US.
It is simpler to manage local staff, but it is not necessary that they be local. Many professional jobs can now be performed from nearly anywhere in the world.
***Yup. Very few jobs are “safe”. That’s why kids are leaving engineering in droves. A couple of years ago, NASA was shipping rocket scientist jobs overseas. We are eating our own seed corn. But hey, we’re “competitive”. Did our founding fathers think that was important? I don’t find many documents where they discuss such things at length, but they seemed very concerned about freedoms and rights in our society... internationally competitive businesses didn’t seem all that high on their list of priorities.