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All that rather pathetic grovelling and kowtowing to Trump, for naught.

They’re still getting a friendlier NLRB, lower corporate tax rates, and an economic policy that is less focused on full employment; tamping down engineering wage growth

They already pivoted to hire offshore workers, so why would they care

Offshoring as the supposed death of the US software developer going on 40 years now remains greatly exaggerated.

And I still don't understand why. I expected it when I started my career, and here nearing the end it's still really rare. And it should have gotten easier in that time, what with the Internet.

Time zones and culture and language and all that, I suppose. But the world is full of very smart people who have a decent grasp of American and European culture, and would work for a tenth the price.

It depends what kind of a company you work for. Something like a bank with a lot of boringly tedious stuff on top of procedures will have quite a lot of offshore contractors. They don't even have to be very smart, because truly smart ones decide to move closer towards the source of the moneys.

It’s hard enough to get developers to build what you want when they’re sitting one cubicle over.

> But the world is full of very smart people who have a decent grasp of American and European culture

Haha no. And maybe even more importantly, the Americans have zero grasp of theirs.

Do note that this will take years to play out. Nothing is certain yet.

The answer is quite simple, they just need to make a big announcement that they will be investing a few billions into something that will 'create well paying AMERICAN jobs', keypoint is that they need to let Trump announce it.

It doesn't matter if they actually go through with it or greatly inflate the number like OpenAI, Softbank and co did.

The suit started under the last Trump administration.

And then they did all that pathetic groveling to the Trump administration.

It may be sold to a Trump insider in the end. First crypto and now this.

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