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Re: [News] Gates' Rants About US CS Skills a Self-inflicted Punishment

__/ [ Jeanette Russo ] on Saturday 24 March 2007 17:11 \__

> These is a bunch of lies to lower the wages of Tech workers in the USA.
> 
> The average time for a tech worker to find a new job after losing theirs
> is eight months.
> 
> If there was truly a shortage you should be able to find a new job in a
> month.
> 
> Don't go along with these capitalists that want to drive wages down.
> 
> Jeanette

Of course, when competent candidates become a rarity, they can demand more.
Large companies prefer to get do the 'dime a dozen' trick, making people
some sort of commodity. By bringing people from abroad they can have them
overworked and underpaid.

http://www.dhalgren.com/Doom/ch12.html

"He's [Bill Gates] a ferocious workaholic, who regularly puts in 80-hour
weeks, and expects his employees to do the same. And although he's something
of a visionary, he's not a particularly reliable one; he never meets product
deadlines, and the goods he so tirelessly promotes are mostly vaporware.
God, like Gates, owes his power and success less to the quality of his
product than to his ruthless business sense. He's created a near monopoly by
outmuscling the competition. You might not like this universe, just as you
might not like Microsoft's clunky programs; but pragmatically speaking,
where else do you have to go?"

Paul recently mentioned the tactic of pretending that there's a great demand
for a particular occupation. The employers gets a wider choice and can also
pay less (a saturated market). This has roots and examples in history, with
which Paul seems initmately familiar.

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