Ooookay...
You got a degree. That's nice. Did IBM reimburse you for that degree? Does Big Blue have competition these days? How do you suggest IBM remain competitive worldwide?
It's rather difficult to get past your seething anger at "corporate fat cats" to engage in a rational discussion.
When they want the labor (and I worked for a competitor of IBM) and they want to lay you off then relocate you to the third world to pay you less than half of your old salary, I’d say they are cooking the books.
Gates and others lied to Congress when they said they needed more foreign workers (and the ability to import billions of dollars of compiled/manufactured code without paying any import duty) because there was insufficient talent here.
Last I knew, the Orwellian pigs at the top of the companies were profiteering off of their false meme.
I am not saying there should be a mandatory salary. They are saying there aren’t the people who can do it here then they are trying to ship people OVER THERE to do the work.
Lies. Damn lies.