They managed to do this in the manufacturing sector. And a car factory or a steel plant is a lot harder to move than a mere office building filled with developers and sysadmins who all work remotely already.
After literally decades of outsourcing software development to other counties it isn’t much of a threat to the remaining US jobs at this point. There are various arguments about why this is or what might change over time, but unions aren’t going to change the landscape over a few years. Change like this takes decades.
The real impact IMO is going to be the erosion of the SV salary premium to other US workers. This might actually raise minimum US salaries due to increased competition with major tech companies in places like Oklahoma without huge tech salaries. However, the real losers from that will be property owners in SV not programmers.
Those aren't necessarily exclusive categories.
Broadly I agree / hope so too, but I don't find hollywood to be a convincing example at all.
There's 12 million US tech jobs currently in the US, and Eric The Executive gets a bonus every quarter for cutting costs (read jobs). I'd say as long as that dynamic holds, it's always a threat. I mean it would be ugly if we only lost 1 million.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/us-tech-employment-...