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Wishful thinking, pure and simple. Outsourcing jobs has always been the dream of tech companies, and it consistently fails to produce the desired results. Shockingly, software development is not just typing. All of the pieces that have to come together to make a technology company work limit the development of the software to certain locations.

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Sounds like you're just bitter about jobs moving overseas. The global talent pool is much bigger than the SV talent pool, and no, they are not just "typists" (that was unbelievably arrogant btw and reflects ignorance). And this global talent pool is only getting bigger, thanks to the internet. It makes sense that it should be possible to hire a more skilled global workforce of engineers at a lesser cost. Companies just need to keep their hiring standards high and pay good salaries (so that skilled people choose to stay in their home countries instead of moving to SV/NY/London et al) instead of hiring bad developers and paying them peanuts for menial work.

In my experience, when it comes to overseas talent, while they might be less talented per capita, you've expanded your candidate pool from the great lakes to the pacific ocean. Even if only half as many folks are 'good' there are a lot more off them than us citizens. Quantity has a quality all its own.

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