General Discussion

My wife works for a relatively small specialty software company and my son for Meta in various tech engineering roles. In both instances they are already sending hardware engineering and tech coding engineering work oversees. Initially it was because of the shortage of engineers, but now that they have a taste of the fact that even at inflated consulting rates, an engineer in either China or India costs 75% less than their American counterpart, the companies are liking it for the sake of the bottom line. In my wife's employer's case, they bought a firm in Egypt for a very specific capability add on for their software. With the company came their engineers and they are only 10% of the cost of their counterpart in America. My son has been out of college 6 years and is now realizing that while he pulls down a good salary, with AI able to do now do 95% of his job and cheap engineers abroad maybe able to fill in the last 5%, he better make it into management because his days as a high end individual contributer may not last very much longer. Not promising for America. And we can be sure Ding Dong Donnie and his his band of merry billionaires and lying sycophants won't see what this writing on the wall means. Nor will they have the policy and legislating know how to do anything meaningful about in a time period that prevents even more erosion to the American brand.