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From twitter:
This is 100% correct. Let me explain how this happened. Might be a bit of a long post but I think worth a read.
Firstly, people have no idea how bad off-shoring has gotten. Especially our government. Trump has been great on protecting the blue collar American worker but so far he is failing miserably at protecting the white collar American worker. He doesn't understand the tech world, it's just not his industry, and the people he has in his orbit who do understand the industry are enemies at worst and neutral at best. Drastic intervention needs to happen but right now they're all asleep at the wheel.
So how did this happen? One thing you need to understand about Silicon Valley is it's always been a mix of cowboys and nerds. Which is actually pretty ideal if you want to create an environment that maximizes innovation. But the risk you take with this kind of wild west environment is you are way more susceptible to corruption. Oversight is minimal and you are basically left to police yourselves.
Now this worked wonderfully when Silicon Valley was like 90% White American nerds and cowboys who loved technology and just wanted to build cool innovative ****. It's one of the great business stories of our age. But as with every other part of society if you lose that base of moral, honorable and homogenous people, corruption and ethnic or political nepotism creeps in.
This started to happen to Silicon Valley in Obama's second term. It dovetailed pretty well with the rise of woke. Silicon Valley companies like Google, Twitter, and others really lead the charge on the woke revolution in the corporate world. One of the advantages (or disadvantages in this case) of the wild west is you can move much quicker.
So Google et al started really ramping up the political and ethnic nepotism. The White men who built Silicon Valley were suddenly public enemy number 1 and the only way for them to absolve themselves of this original sin was to join the color revolution and point the finger at someone else.
Basically overnight the culture inside these companies became extremely far left and a lot less White. The discrimination against straight White men in hiring, promotions and work environment, was some of the worst civil rights violations in the history of our country (a crime that not a single person or company has paid for by the way.) You get the point, I'm sure most of you remember this era anyways.
While this was happening Silicon Valley is enjoying years of free-flowing capital. It was never easier to raise money. This led the industry to make a fatal mistake. They assumed the money would last forever. So they hired, a lot. Their entire business model was predicated on this assumption that the money would never dry up. They turned their efficient, wild west, move fast, startup culture into a jobs program and adult day care for far-left San Francisco communists.
I had a friend at this time who was an enterprise sales guy at google. I had a client he wanted an in with so he asked me to meet him at Googleplex and chat for a bit. He took me for a little tour of the campus which that alone was insane. But what stuck with me about that visit was how I didn't see a single person working. Not one. There were laptops everywhere but not a single keystroke. Until the end of the visit.
Right before I left, we walked past an area with individual work stations. We finally found the White men (and some asians), coding away furiously, keeping the lights on.
This was the reality for most tech companies. Insane amounts of bloat sitting on top of highly productive White guys with unlimited capital to pay for all the dead weight.
There's some debate over this but the money spigot really turned off in Q1 of 2022. Since then what you've seen is the managed decline of the tech industry. As a Silicon Valley CEO if you were one of the majority of companies who over-hired during the previous decade, you were in real trouble. The business model that had been working was suddenly broken. Pockets got tight and decisions needed to be made.
The smart thing to do, the honorable thing to do, would have been to cut the dead weight. Fire the far-left gender goblins and the communists and the diversity hires, and the managerial class who contribute nothing. A perfect example of this was Elon buying twitter and firing 70% of the staff while keeping the lights on. And for most companies it didn't need to be that drastic, Twitter was one of the worst adult day cares in the entire industry.
But Silicon Valley by this time was run by idiots. Like truly stupid people. You'll see some of the usual suspects on here (*cough* Jason Calacanis.) There were some incredibly smart people too, the Marc Andreesens, the Palmer Luckeys, the Elon Musks, but they were few and far between.
So stupid people do stupid things. They kept the adult day care, kept the HR bureaucracy, and instead decided we'll just replace these expensive Americans (mostly White guys) who are keeping the lights on with indians halfway across the world. We'll get the Americans to train their replacements and we'll keep one or two to manage the team out of india.
This strategy took off like wildfire. Everyone needed to cut headcount, by this point you had a lot of major Silicon Valley companies who had transitioned their leadership away from the original founders to indian strivers who were more than happy to fire Americans en masse and hire as many co-ethnics as they could. H1B, india office, remote off-shoring, it was all on the table.
The result? The largest single case of mass immigration fraud and selling out of the American worker since the hollowing out of our manufacturing base. Which happens to be the perfect analogy because what I've coined the great tech replacement is our generations version of the factory in Detroit you relied on to put on the table being shipped off to China.
So unless the Trump admin wakes up and takes drastic action to block the off-shoring epidemic we're going to have an incredible amount of pain in the next few years. This problem will only get worse and it will be targeted at our best and brightest people. The future of our country will fail to launch unless something is done.
I could see a "wage tariff" type of law put in place that adds some kind of tax/cost to whatever you're paying someone to perform mental labour overseas, i.e you pay your indian accountant to do your books $10/hour but a 20% tariff means you must pay the government $2 per hour to do it.
I saw the first rumblings of this phenomenon before covid (mrs over9k is an accountant and their firm sends all the grunt work off to a firm in india and they then do the higher skilled stuff here once they get the grunt-work-completed files back from them) and alarm bells went off for me then.
Fact is if your job can be done by you from home it can be done by someone else in india or wherever.
i raised this issue a long time ago.
Being in IT, I was among the first Australian white collar to be subjected to that:
outsourcing to India while being asked to compete with salaries when a 40k engineer there was driven by a chauffeur lived in a relative mansion ,and IT companies there where paying no company tax for the first 5 or 10y from memory.
then any indian coming with a briefcase was an IT professional, mist with pathetic technical knowledge..the brightest moving obviously to the silicon valley, not Melbourne!!!
then segregation started: women first, colour , not many Aboriginals, and guess what a lot of indian workers as soon as the managers were Indians.
Indian as Indian subcontinent: might be Indian, Pakistani or Bengali .
Then the head of the Australian computer society..kind of the IT union here, moved to an Indian guy, and the next ACS was actually pushing for more it entries..no kidding, you can check.
At no time during my 20y career here has anyone mention, question this.
IBM Australia was running whole projects manned by Indians on "business trips"...
for government departments.
Even before AI, young uni IT graduates could not find jobs and moved out.
as my son entered uni, i told him: not IT.
There are solutions but ALP does not care about a few non unionised nerds, nor does the LNP want to annoy their donors.
so yes, go to the march tomorrow but we are already drowning.
And yes, if you can do WFH, Rashid or "Ben" in India or Africa , SEAsia can do this job as well, better than you fir much cheaper..and be individually better off than you....
The big wet dream of the WEF, is actually taken onboard by the West populace voluntarily..