One thing WFH advocates fail to recognize is that, if companies embrace it - now they have the ability to replace super high paying US based WFH employees with low cost WFH (anywhere in the world employee).
WFM advocates don’t realize that they are effectively advocating for offshoring their own job.
And if it ever did become a serious threat, we could just resort to blatant racism and stereotyping against foreign workers and that is enough to kick the can down the road a bit longer. Many companies simply will not hire offshore Indians because they believe they do inferior work compared to Americans, and Chinese are corporate spies/leakers.
If that means I get replaced by a talented hacker from India someday, the tradeoff is still far north of worth it.
Be careful for what you wish for, is all I’m saying.
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We engineers tend to take for granted just how specialized our knowledge has been, till recently. It seems unrealistic to expect this privilege to last forever. The rest of the world is catching up, and tools like ChatGPT might rapidly accelerate this race.
The way to survive is to adapt. It’s always been key.
That, and a brain drain from America to other countries may occur. I would expect the government to step in.
Besides the Capitalists have already made things terrible for people. “Give up more or they might make it more terrible” isn’t really convincing.
Like affording a house is impossible, kids are seen as a status symbol (like owning a BMW 20 years ago, or having a pet tiger or something). The retirement age goes up and up.
I say we call their bluff already.