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Who said Trump doesn't deliver?

There never was a skill shortage. Only a pay shortage.

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I really hope 100% of your consumption is from U.S. citizenship for the sake of your consistency.

I've never been to the U.S. I just hate unfair competition.

What is unfair competition in this context.

Deliver on a promise to curb foreign competition on American soil and forward a protectionist agenda? I see this move as accomplishing the opposite of the stated goal, or at least being a wash with respect to it. Not that I’m complaining, but I’m sure even a despot would do some things we all nominally agreed with. There can be little doubt that Trump has been slowed in implementing his agenda by a lack of either familiarity or willingness to work with the bureaucracy in Washington.

If by “competition” you mean pseudo-moralist corporate agenda designed to suppress wages for engineers and developers.

Wages have been FLAT vs rising inflation for ages, mostly due to labor over-supply.

I only see an overall labor shortage in tech fields. I’ve never heard of even mediocre developers having trouble finding work, except for a brief period in the early 2000s. I think wage suppression is only contributed to in very small part by the oft-exploited labor coming here from overseas on the H1-B and similar programs. I see this as trying to make the program function more according to its stated intention and bring in skilled labor.

It's the mediocre developers or developers in areas where the overwhelming majority of the jobs are mediocre that are hurt by this. Generally speaking they're not being replaced with better workers, they're being replaced with cheaper foreign mediocre workers.

Wages are flat due to inadequate wealth redistribution leading to a sluggish, understimulated economy. The minimum wage is many years overdue for a major increase - people at the bottom of the wage scale spend virtually all their income back into the economy. Billionaires hoarding enormous sums of US generated wealth in overseas banks do not.

> Wages have been FLAT vs rising inflation for ages, mostly due to labor over-supply.

In software engineering? Are you kidding?

>There can be little doubt that Trump has been slowed in implementing his agenda by a lack of either familiarity or willingness to work with the bureaucracy in Washington.

Both being, ironically, the qualities his base finds most appealing about him, and which probably got him elected to begin with.

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