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Our government failed the citizens and let outsourcing and wage suppression destroy the US tech industry...positioning the country far behind other countries in technology supremacy for at least a decade to come

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It started long before tech. It started with manufacturing. Everything has been replaced with financial manipulation and rent-seeking.

You don’t have a god given right as an American to a mid-high six figure income working in tech and I’m not sure how you can see Anthropic playing whack-a-mole trying to keep the Chinese from distilling their models and say that the US isn’t still on the inside track with this stuff.

Corporations don’t have a God-given right to manipulate the market by outsourcing the work to the detriment of the natives, yet they make good use of it!

That’s not really how that works.

Also, why do you hate the poor so much? Do people not deserve well paying jobs because the vagina they came out of wasn’t located on the correct patch of dirt?

And yet, CS was the fastest growing employment category with some of the highest and among the fastest growing salaries in the nation for the past 2 decades despite the fact that outsourcing has been around since the 90s.

The fact that this changed in the last 2 years right when AI became feasible is just a coincidence. It’s actually finally outsourcing destroying the grad job market nearly 3 decades later.

Nothing changed in the past 2 years except we had another recession. Just like very other recession, people are looking for something to blame. Out sourcing has long been a popular thing to blame. This time blaming AI is the fad. There will be more recessions in the future and people will blame some other fad next time (or perhaps the same). In the end though it is the economy.

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