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Outsourcing is not exclusive to India. What if they outsource to Italy? Spain? Ukraine? Greece? Hell even Germany.

All of those places have salaries that are a fraction of the typical US salary. US salaries are incredibly ridiculous on the global stage. And all of those places with actually good developers

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Then why hasn't this been happening in significant amounts to impact the U.S. software job market in the past thirty years?

Those places have payroll taxes in the realm of 30-70%, and high progressive income taxes.

The overall labour cost is similar.

American developers are just lucky that they live in a low-tax society.

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