The plainly manipulative, superficial and dishonest argumentation of pg is the root cause of this.

I pretty much stopped reading after:

> where they then paid them the same as they'd have paid an American

pg knows full well that the argument of those who feel immigrant programmers are used as cheap labor is that wages are currently either being artificially depressed, or there is no shortage, or both.

By ignoring that, and using this BS argument, it's quite obvious that he has no interest in an open, honest debate about the matter. This essay, which consist of little more than superficial political propaganda, is certainly not a good starting point for such a debate.