Now, you're going to continue attracting LESS of the top tier talent as you make it clearer and clearer that you don't want them. This is the talent we want most.

Even if you're a laborer, it's quite hard to argue that the absolute pinnacle of the labor pool is dragging down your wages and not increasing total jobs.

If other countries are giving you better alternatives, why bring your talents to the US?

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glimshe 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don't think "top talent" is very well represented in the companies listed above...

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shimman 3 hours ago | parent [-]

It is when you think high salaries = top talent.

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Ancalagon 2 hours ago | parent [-]

None of the above companies have what I would consider to be high salaries relative to their tech peers.

	▲	JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Microsoft is also included [1]. [1] https://www.ft.com/content/5cfecbba-69ed-42d0-98fd-3ae019144...

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xnx 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> the absolute pinnacle of the labor pool

You can't be saying this in seriousness

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csmiller 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

most of these places are body shops, pretty much the opposite of “pinnacle of the labour pool”

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JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> you're going to continue attracting LESS of the top tier talent

Just hire them remote overseas. One of the competitive advantages of hybrid organizations is they natively support international teams.

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gadders 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

LOL. It's not "top talent" it's "cheap talent" or even just "more talent so the supply is larger and wages go down".

If you're EG a PhD+ and working in a frontier AI lab on cutting edge problems, then fair enough. If you're developer x of 100 writing Java CRUD apps in the finance department of some corporate, you are not.

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cheonic4040 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Now, you're going to continue attracting LESS of the top tier talent as you make it clearer and clearer that you don't want them. This is the talent we want most.

No. It’s not.

> other companies that would be suspended […] included Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp., Infosys Ltd., Tata, Wipro Ltd., HCL Technologies Ltd., and Capgemini SE.

These companies are D tier talent, at best.

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toomuchtodo 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Top talent exists domestically, this is to hold wages down. It’s fine to impair the import conveyor and see what happens. If and when there is a labor shortage or wages spike horrendously (highly unlikely), certainly, we can revisit.

Neoliberalism ignored domestic worker concerns for shareholder returns and corporatism, and an alternative was offered, here we are. It’s a natural experiment we might not otherwise had had the opportunity to run.

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onlyrealcuzzo 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You are correct.

It also exists non-domestically...

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		If the US can bully countries into releasing 100M barrels of their own petroleum reserves, what makes you think the US can’t solve for that too? Other countries! Everyone has a leverage point, everyone has a point at which the pain is worse than the ask. Companies and executives are easy, and usually of weak constitution. They fold fast, based on the evidence so far. US Big Tech fell in line super fast, right? “Fall in line or else.” If trillions of dollars in enterprise value and the resources it commands won’t save you, I’m unsure if anything else would. It’s not right or wrong, it just is. We are living through a “might makes right” era. It’s not the first, won’t be the last (if history is our guide). This too shall pass.

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superdisk 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> wages spike horrendously

Anything but that!

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		WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE SHAREHOLDERS!!
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meowkit 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Frankly talent doesn’t matter any more with AI - the skill floor for software has dropped to zero so an average dev now competes with the best devs. Marketing and capital matter way more.

It still matters a bit for architectural direction - but those roles are so few I wouldn’t be concerned as an American.