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At some point you end up shitting your own bed with this behavior. Development will cease to be lucrative if this plays out, so now you have a deficient technical knowledge base in America and a deficient manufacturing base? What exactly is America's future here? I really don't think you can be deficient in both or there is nothing left but pure balls.

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That's why you have to get out as soon as you can. The money in being a code monkey in the West is on borrowed time. The tried and true money is in management. Managing people always pays well.

How is the management class supposed to manage technical work they ultimately grow out of touch with? An individual isn't going to be able to project power across an ocean, so why do they need you in particular? Sounds like a race to the bottom as far as the notion of becoming a manager to outsourced labor, I'm doubtful there is enough management work to absorb an influx of former ICs.

> What exactly is America's future here? I really don't think you can be deficient in both or there is nothing left but pure balls.

Shithole country that can't do shit, with a capitalist upper-class that's rich enough to insulate themselves from the shithole aspects. It's the libertarian utopia we've all dreamed about.

It will last until the foreign societies cease to recognize the American upper-class's paper ownership interests.

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